Over the mountains and mountains, when Zhao Wenrui found the hunter's hut, he knew that civilization was not far away.

Not giving him the details of the hunter's hut didn't make a good impression on him, because the equipment inside was basically unusable and tattered, and there was arrow frog toxin in the seemingly clear water in the tank.

The Hunter's Hut represents the atmosphere of a circle, or even a culture, and if it is so vicious, if it is not just in time for someone to deliberately do evil, then it means that the atmosphere of the whole circle is smelly.

After crossing two more mountains, Zhao Wenrui found relatively new traces, and then there was the sheep intestine trail that often walked around, and then there was the cooking smoke and the village.

More than 20 households, the house is built around a mound tens of meters high, roughly divided into three floors, the top floor seems to be a functional facility, there is a bell tower, there is a public house, there is a stable, and there is a square of hundreds of square meters, the ground is covered with stone slabs, judging from the bundles of wheat straw stacked on the edge, about a part-time threshing field.

Below the top floor, according to the houses of the same level, it is divided into two floors, with a roughly circular village road, and the houses on the upper floor are relatively bright, but not much better.

Zhao Wenrui noticed several key points:

First, these houses have stone foundations, supplemented by mortar, which fit better, and it takes thought and effort.

Second, every household has a fireplace, and its overall shape is like a boiler made of stone, which represents the Western-style stove, and people still use it until modern times.

Third, the roof is paved with clay-fired tiles, not thatch, nor wooden tiles.

The combination of these three, and the presence in the mountain villages on the fringes of this civilization, means that the building skills are more mature, and the productivity is not low.

You know, on Earth, even in the 20th century, some remote mountain villages in Eastern Europe may not be so decent.

Combined with the costumes of the punishers he had seen in the ruins of the mountain city, he believed that the civilization he was about to face was at least as productive as the Victorian period in England, and even possible during World War I and World War II, but in different forms.

Zhao Wenrui also noticed the thick and tall stone wall in this mountain village, he roughly calculated, the circumference of this stone wall, at least two kilometers, an average height of 3 meters, more than half a meter thick, the top of the spurs stretched out obliquely, entangled with thorns, anti-climbing, behind the wall there are fixed scaffolding for people to stand and walk, such a costly, for more than 20 households is definitely a huge burden of the project, obviously not used to prevent wild beasts.

It's not against wild beasts, so what's the defense?

It's not quite like it, it's a very simple arithmetic problem, more than 20 households, even if there are 8 people in each family, it's 200, men, women and children go into battle together, and they are divided into a line of defense of more than 2,000 meters, with an interval of 10 meters.

To put it bluntly, such a long defensive line, just daily patrols will be very difficult for the total manpower of this mountain village, let alone start a war.

"The wisdom is not as good as people, the number is not small, I like to act in groups, but there is no rule, basically I just rush to the top...... It seems to be a sub-intelligent creature like a goblin, but if goblins are so rampant, can they still farm and hunt?"

After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't figure it out, and Zhao Wenrui could only sigh that his brain was limited.

After observing and thinking about it, he decided to make contact with the people here.

As a time-traveler who has lived in the era of information explosion, he naturally knows that mountain villages are not necessarily the same as simple people, but may also be savage and ferocious who eat people without spitting out bones.

Especially if he is alone, carrying a big bag, and indeed carrying a lot of valuable mountain goods, it is easy for him to become the target of the plot of those who are hungry for profit.

So, since you know that people's hearts are sinister and can't stand the test, let's start with ourselves, such as the problem of not revealing money.

So Zhao Wenrui deliberately hid his backpack and even the large blade.

After thinking about it, he used wood plastic to make a cane and a dagger in his leg pocket.

This is the only iron artifact, carefully crafted from magic copper, which looks good, but not to the point where it is easy to make people greedy.

After a simple grooming and dressing, he carried a small bag on his back and walked down the path towards the village.

The village has three gates, but there is no north gate, because there are mountains on that side.

Zhao Wenrui walked through the west gate, the door was open, and there were people on the gatehouse, wearing a hard leather armor vest on his upper body, carrying a waist knife, and holding a crossbow in his hand.

When Zhao Wenrui walked in, he asked, "Who are you doing here?"

Zhao Wenrui, who used the 'Fluent Language' spell, raised his hands high, suitable for no threat, and replied loudly: "Passing by, it's almost noon, I want to rest." ”

The man stared at Zhao Wenrui expressionlessly for a few seconds, hooked his hand, signaled that he could pass, and then walked to the corner of the top platform of the gatehouse, rang the bell, and there were three intervals, Zhao Wenrui didn't know what this meant, but he noticed that the bell was still a magic item.

Although it is the lowest-grade kind, it is also more strange than ordinary bells, and the sound is more cohesive and travels farther. Of course, in Zhao Wenrui's view, the point is that such artifacts need to be maintained by extraordinary people.

In other words, even if there is a mobile defender like Jianghu Langzhong, it also means that the use of extraordinary power is generalized and popularized.

In all likelihood, extraordinary power is the primary productive force of this civilization.

Zhao Wenrui entered the gate of the village, and the person on duty pointed out: "Don't walk around, go to the public house." As he spoke, he pointed to the top of the dirt mountain.

After Zhao Wenrui thanked him, he walked along the stone steps to the top of the mountain.

The stone steps are not wide, and on both sides are gentle slopes hardened by stone slabs, obviously, it is a driveway, but looking at the overall design, it should not be pulled by large animals, but by people.

"Without a horse road, how can a big animal go to the top floor?" Zhao Wenrui was puzzled.

When he reached the top, he saw a woman looking at him with burning eyes, who seemed to be forty years old, with thick arms and legs, and a bucket waist, and tonnage and strength.

This doorkeeper is also virtuous, his face is expressionless, and his eyes do not fluctuate.

Zhao Wenrui held a cane in his arm, opened his hands, and walked towards the other party with a smile, while smiling and telling the woman what he had said to the doorkeeper before, it is almost noon, rest your feet, get some food and drink by the way, and leave in the afternoon.

But before he could come closer, the woman stretched out her arm and pointed to the public house, refusing to say a word.

Zhao Wenrui said: "Okay, I've seen some of them on the market, try to be considerate of you, just treat you as a rare person, and be more wary of strangers." ”

He bowed his head to the woman and walked towards the public house.

The public housing is the largest house in the village, and functions like a town hall, where it is used for meetings or discussions. The public housing in this mountain village consists of a square hall large enough to accommodate all the villagers, as well as a horizontal building and junction. The bell tower is located at the junction.

Zhao Wenrui can even imagine the functional division of the interior, the hall is used for reception, and the building is divided into several offices, and the junction is the aisle......

As it turned out, he was wrong, and he couldn't have been more wrong.

The hall can also be understood as being used for reception, but only for receiving enemies.

Soon after he entered, a heavy gate fell, completely sealing the entrance and exit.

Along with the gates that closed the windows, the whole hall was immediately completely darkened.

Immediately followed by a beam shot, launched by the mechanism, from several directions, the specific target of the shot also varies, depending on the situation should be calculated, there are almost no dead ends.

However, Zhao Wenrui was very vigilant, and he was fully prepared to deal with various situations in advance, in the face of this round of blows, he just shook his body, and immediately switched to the shadow plane, which was equivalent to blurring in the main material plane, and those crossbow arrows penetrated his phantom, and the 'Duo Duo' was nailed to the inner wall of the hall, and the sawdust was splashing, and the strength was very strong, and the military crossbow that Zhao Wenrui knew was also the best of the sky.

After a while, someone angrily asked, "Where are the people?"

Immediately after someone replied: "I don't know, it disappeared in the blink of an eye." ”

Zhao Wenrui slandered in his heart: "It turns out that you have emotions." ”

He didn't rush to show up, nor did he explore the whole picture of this public house through the shadow plane, he just stayed there, in the mezzanine between the shadow plane and the material plane, this mezzanine can be as thin as a cicada's wings, but as long as the technology is in place and can accommodate it, it can still appear to be very spacious.

For Yingde, this is a basic ability, and the vision is also clear, which is equivalent to being separated through a layer of tulle. The disadvantage is that once you are blasted out or pulled out by the extraordinary skills that know the technology, there will be less than a second of stiffness, and the master has made a move, and this stiffness of less than a second is also very fatal.

Zhao Wenrui's patience paid off in less than half an hour.

His murderers got impatient, and lit the oil lamps, then opened the top skylights, and then opened the gates of the doors and windows. More than a dozen people, armed with weapons, came in to inspect them.

"Damn, it's really gone, how did it disappear? Could it be that the anti-teleportation device that I spent a lot of money on is a fake?"

Zhao Wenrui sighed when he heard it, and slandered: "You guys are very professional!"

I have to say that these people give him an external temperament and give him a very bad first impression.

With a face full of meat, fierce eyes, and a hideous demeanor, he doesn't need to wear makeup to play a mountain bandit or robber, and at least he is an elite backbone at the level of a small boss.

Although there is a saying that you can't judge people by their appearance, there is also a saying that the appearance (temperament) is born from the heart, combined with personal experience, Zhao Wenrui believes in the latter more.

He even thought like this: "No wonder it's deserted, the two of them showed up, and most of them were the kindest people in the village, right?

Anyway, from the moment these people hurt him without asking, Zhao Wenrui had no intention of being good.

In modern times, it is popular to repay grievances directly, and he also thinks that there is nothing wrong with doing so, and he believes that most of the deeds these people have done are also worthy of torture and killing.

So he started to act, and easily found the mechanism control room, right next to the hall, he thought that the connection department, the hall did not have a portal to lead here, and he wanted to enter the circle, but from the shadow plane, he could take a shortcut and be unhindered.

Naturally, there are people in the control room, Zhao Wenrui manipulated the shadow vine, and he saw that there was suddenly a black disgust churning in the void, but unfortunately from the perspective of sight, the three people in the room could not see it.

Then, very suddenly, a bundle of vines wrapped in lead-gray demonic mist erupted, and then wrapped around the three of them like a capture net shot by a net shooter, followed by a coil of tightening.

Not only do these vines thicken rapidly, but they also grow thorns, puncturing clothing and even leather armor in the process of tightening, piercing flesh, cutting bloody wounds, and injecting paralyzing toxins.

The three of them only screamed halfway, and then they lost the strength to continue howling, and collapsed and fell. Ren Chang vines continued to coil and wriggle around his body like worms.

However, their cries were still heard by the people in the hall.

It turned out that although the two rooms were not connected, they were specially set up with sound holes.

So when Zhao Wenrui heard someone angry and discouraged the quarrel before, it was actually deliberate by the other party, if he couldn't hold his breath and tried to follow the sound, find the portal and destroy it, then he was tricked, and there would be a special organ to launch.

"Quick, get out!" One of the people in the hall was quick to realize that something was going on in the control room, alerted the others, and rushed to the entrance.

But it's still slow.

Before Zhao Wenrui started, he had observed, the controller was not complicated, and he pushed the thickest lever directly.

'Bang!' The doors and windows on the other side of the hall all fell.

The people in the hall were quite calm, and instead of using their weapons to stumble with the gate, they immediately turned around and ran towards the central area, which was not only a relatively safe area, there were no flap traps, but also corresponded to the skylight.

Of course, this design is not because of kindness, but in case the target reaches out superbly, and the crossbow bolt can't control the other party, after dealing with a series of mechanisms, it is bound to find that the central area is relatively safe, and when the time comes, they can strike through the skylight and condescendingly.

At this moment, they want to escape through the skylight through the ladder.

Zhao Wenrui naturally won't let them get their wish.

However, this time he couldn't pull the lever right at once, and first activated the flaps around him, and a hapless ghost who was slow to react and not fast enough was flipped into the spear pit. Then the poisonous smoke trap was triggered, but because the corresponding cigarette sac was not in place, it sounded twice and there was no movement.

Then he successfully activated the skylight mechanism, and the skylight closed, so that someone who was about to succeed felt straight from heaven to hell, trying to force it out, but failed to succeed because of the lack of human ladder borrowing, and almost had his finger pinched off.

Soon after, the group of people who knew that the pit people were being cheated still whispered softly, probably saying that their village was fighting with the neighboring village over the ownership of a river related to drinking water and farming, thinking that Zhao Wenrui was a spy hired by the other party.

Zhao Wenrui wanted to follow their words: "Lao Tzu is a spy, see what they make up next." ”

But in the end, I chose to ignore it at all.

Because as long as you open your mouth, you will leak more or less information, so you just keep silent, let them guess for yourself, then question, and then make up for your thoughts, so that it is more appropriate to deal with it.

He also ignored the three people in the control room, and let them continue to taste the paralyzing bondage play, and the taste of itching and pain.

Using vines to seal the portal from the inside and through weaving, Zhao Wenrui entered the shadow plane again, exploring in the direction of the building connected to the control room.

Then I realized that this was not a divided office at all, but a prison, and there was a dungeon.

"What kind of bullshit mountain village is this, is it really a bandit's den?" Zhao Wenrui frowned and decided to find out.