Chapter Twenty-Five: Peace of Mind
At this time, in front of the ruined village, some of the surviving villagers had already emerged from their hiding places, trembling and huddled together, waiting for the skeleton's final "verdict". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The reason why these villagers are willing to believe in the skeleton and get out of the hideout is that although there is a reason for the skeleton to destroy the invaders, in the final analysis, the main reason is the credit of Orihime's double heavenly shield.
Because Orihime's Double Heaven Shield has a healing effect, the dark diseases on these villagers are cured, and because of the effect of its skill activation, the sky is full of brilliance, like a goddess coming to the world, making these villagers who have not seen much of the world shocked, and it is naturally easy to win favor.
Of course, the skeleton's appearance at this time is still under the shroud of "camouflage", otherwise with the skeleton's original face, even if Orihime's Double Heaven Shield is magical, I'm afraid these villagers will not be the current "duty" appearance.
"The ......," the skeleton asked, pondering his words, a little hesitantly, "have you ever heard of a magician?"
After the villagers looked at each other, an old man came out and replied, "I've heard of it!"
The skeleton couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it would be easy to do if he had heard of it, otherwise, if he didn't even understand the meaning of the word "magician", then I am afraid that he would have to reformulate the interrogation strategy.
"And what is your definition of a mage?" the skeleton asked.
The old man thought for a moment and said, "Mysterious! powerful! omnipotent!"
"Oh, is it?" the skeleton couldn't help but be stunned, but he didn't expect the magician to have such a high evaluation.
However, this is good news for the skeleton, as he can use his identity as a mage to "explore" the world's intelligence.
"I'm glad to hear that you have such a great opinion of a mage, because ......," said the skeleton in a tone of delight, "I am a mage with such a wonderful evaluation of yours!"
"Really? That's a ...... It's such an honor!" the last trace of vigilance on the old man's face finally let go, and he said with unprecedented enthusiasm, "I didn't expect to meet such a magician as you with a benevolent heart and great power in my lifetime, I ...... I've lived my life in vain!"
"You're too polite!" In the face of the old man's enthusiasm, the skeleton seemed to be a little at ease, after all, in his previous life, in order to live, he still had a period of "experience" in society, and he knew that the skeleton who struck while the iron was hot took advantage of the old man's current state of complete trust, and hurriedly changed the topic and obtained information," Because of a magic experiment, I spent a lot of time to make a small success, recently made a comeback, but I don't know what year it is, so I want to find someone to find out what has happened in recent years, just saw the fire here, immediately rushed over to check the end, and saw those people just now, so I stopped it, but it was still too late, hey......"
At the end of the skeleton's words, he couldn't help but let out a soft sigh, as if he was infinitely melancholy.
The skeleton's sigh suddenly aroused the sadness in the old man's heart, looking at the tragic situation around him, thinking of the harmony and happiness in the past, he couldn't help but scream sadly, and his eyes were full of tears.
Although the old man's eyes were hazy with tears at this time, he still comforted the skeleton: "Master Magician, there is no need to blame yourself, you can come here to help, it is a great gift to us, otherwise, I am afraid that no one in our village has been spared, and we all have supreme gratitude for this!"
The skeleton shook his hand, indicating that he didn't care, and then said to Yi Mengxian: "Now that all these invaders have been killed, you can bring back the pair of sisters outside the village!"
The skeleton is talking about the little sisters in the village who escaped and were hunted down outside the village.
The reason why the skeleton ordered Yi Mengxian to deal with this matter also had his own thoughts, not because the skeleton really cared so much about the safety of the sisters, but because the sisters saw their skeleton appearance, so the skeleton ordered Yi Mengxian to go and eliminate possible hidden dangers.
Therefore, while instructing Yi Mengxian, the skeleton secretly transmitted the voice to Yi Mengxian with his mind, signaling Yi Mengxian to use the "forbidden" to seal the two sisters, so that they could not reveal the skeleton's true body in any way and in any form.
In the eyes of the villagers, the skeleton's behavior of ordering Yi Mengxian to act was like the skeleton's dissatisfaction with their behavior, and they all looked at each other, not knowing where they offended this "magician".
In the end, the old man who spoke earlier stood up, broke the silence in a worried voice, and said in a slur voice, "That...... As you can see, our village has been destroyed, and now we are destitute, so I think ...... If you can be compassionate...... We're going to give you a gratuity in the coming year, so ......"
Looking at the old man's hesitant expression, the skeleton couldn't help but be stunned, and quickly realized that these villagers might have misunderstood what they meant and thought that they needed to be paid.
"Don't worry, as I said before, I just need to know something about what has happened in recent years, and I don't have any material needs, don't worry!" the skeleton quickly explained to the old man, and at the same time turned to the villagers and said, "Folks, don't be suspicious, you can re-establish your own home, and when I ask you about the situation in recent years, I will travel far away to continue studying my magic!" ”
Although it is said so, this is just the skeleton's rhetoric to the outside world in order to settle the hearts of the villagers, for the skeleton who has long regarded this village as his "stronghold", there are techniques and methods to make these ignorant villagers obediently offer the village with their hands, so what the skeleton needs to do now is to calm his heart, and then take away his "people", and finally "invade" his village!
At this moment, Yi Mengxian had already brought the two little girls back to the village, and it could be seen from their expressions that they were afraid of the skeleton group, because as soon as Yi Mengxian let go of the hand that was holding them, they immediately ran behind the villagers and cowered and hid.
But, perhaps out of fear or for other reasons, the good news is that they didn't try to reveal the true identities of the skeletons and others - though they weren't able to.
Anyway, at least the two girls were quite knowledgeable about current affairs, so the skeleton was relieved and lost the desire to continue to pay attention to it.