Stannis greedily lit the fire, and he began to think about whether or not to charge the two men for heating. But Seaworth, the retainer who had been following the Mitage family from birth to death, miraculously took a huge pan from his satchel, and took out a few frozen pieces of bacon and eggs and put them on the fire, and the tantalizing aroma instantly overflowed, and Stannis swallowed a mouthful of saliva and swallowed back what he had meant to say.

"Who's going to order wine?" asked Seaworth, as attentively as a caring butler.

"I want! I want!" Robert pushed Stannis away, took the sac, and drank greedily, but in vain - the liquor in the deerskin pouch had already frozen into ice.

Stannis touched his aching butt and didn't have a seizure, he was just curious that Seaworth, as a knight, carried everything he needed like a logistical man, maybe that was the way to take care of the half-big bear kid named Enrique?

Delicious bacon with only one side of fried eggs and spicy spirits, and in this icy purgatory, Stannis had one of the most delicious meals yet. After swallowing the last piece of fried crispy bacon into his stomach, Stannis touched his belly and breathed a sigh of relief, his life was no longer regretful. The others were equally well fed, but to his surprise, Vane, who always called out to be his old enemy, was surprisingly quiet.

Stannis wanted to taunt him a few words, but when he saw the other party kneeling in front of the fire and drawing a cross in prayer, he dispelled this idea, and the other people also looked solemn.

Not a single person in the cramped mill spoke, only the whistling of a blizzard outside the house pierced through the walls and roared in everyone's ears.

The journey seemed far more difficult than he had ever imagined, at least that's what Stannis thought before he fell asleep.

The next day, the expedition party set out on their journey just after dawn, but Blizzard showed no signs of abating, and after a long journey to purgatory, Stannis finally heard what he wanted to hear.

"Here we are. ”

Seaworth wiped the frost from his beard and looked up with difficulty.

Four snowman-like travelers appeared in front of the castle surrounded by the village, which was undoubtedly the domain of the Claus family, or the former home of the family.

Of course, the village has long been empty, but strange to say, it was still snowy outside the village, but now when they walked in, there was not even the slightest snowflake flying in the air, as if there was a position hanging over it to prevent the snow from drifting in.

"What the hell!" Stannis walked down the village streets, only a thin layer of frost under his feet, a far cry from the knee-high snow he had just seen. The village looks like it has only been abandoned for a long time, and the houses and cottages are still very well preserved, but the inhabitants of it have disappeared,...... It's like it's all gone overnight.

Robert dared to enter several houses, but none of the belongings inside had been moved, and even some of the pots were still filled with food, as if the villagers had just left for a temporary reason and that they would return.

After making their rounds around, the four gathered in the square in the middle of the village, and none of them noticed anything out of the ordinary.

The village now seemed to be a forbidden place for life, not even a dog barked, and the deathly silence seemed so lonely that the church that stood in the middle of the square seemed so lonely that no one recognized the god it was dedicated to, judging by the thorn and rose motifs carved on its main entrance.

"What the hell is going on?"

Stannis was the first to ask, already a little hairy in the middle of an empty village.

The rest of the people shook their heads, and Vane spoke his thoughts, "It can be seen that these people all left because of some sudden circumstances, and some of them hurriedly put down their hands and did half of the work at that time. ”

Everyone nodded, and Seaworth continued, "Whatever happened, it seems that the sudden event was really urgent. ”

But Stannis had a bad idea, a worst-case scenario......

The farmer who was wiped out last time...... When they disappeared, they didn't take anything with them with them.

"Let's go to the castle and have a look!" Robert suggested, "and there must be something strange about the fact that the others are gone, and the Klaus family is destroyed." ”

Everyone agreed, and the attentive Stannis deliberately looked back at the outside of the castle before entering the castle, and there was nothing out of the ordinary, except for the black raven that had been hovering overhead, which had been following him since he left the village yesterday, and was very disgusting.

But as he stepped into the castle, a pungent smell of blood crept into his nostrils, and the castle was extremely dark due to the lack of fire, a situation that was not resolved until Vane lit a torch.

But when the firelight lit up the aisles of the castle, a large expanse of red-painted walls appeared before Stannis's eyes, but instead of dye, it was blood...... The gray stone walls were stained red with blood, as if the wall was bleeding from it itself.

Stannis never thought he would see this, a corridor of blood.

Although he was a little unsteady on his feet, the three men in front of him still walked forward by the light of the torches, and finally they came to the castle hall, the 'heart' of this bloody hell.

And the sight in front of them made the three people stop.

Falling behind, Stannis managed to keep up with them, but as soon as his feet stepped into the hall, he felt slimy, and he looked down to find his boots in blood......

The entire hall was covered in a layer of blood, and the scene in the center awakened the deepest darkness within Stannis.

The ground was littered with human corpses, shredded bodies brutally arranged in a sudden.

Clockwise in the vortex, the bloody drawings made by missing farmers and goblins that Stannis had seen in the depths of the Black Forest had reappeared here.

"This is!" Stannis looked at Robert in a panic, and found that his younger brother was also bloodless, and he also recognized this pattern, which really belonged to hell.

But the other two people, of course, didn't recognize the pattern, they were simply shocked by this horrible and bloody scene, and their imagination alone could not guess what was going on here, what cruel 'man' did such a beastly thing.

But Stannis guessed what 'people' were doing, the humanoids that Lucia called the 'Chaos People', or the terrible creatures abandoned by the gods.