Chapter 12: The Good Farmer
"What's the noise, put it away!" Fred saw that the situation was not right, and immediately stood between the two sides, "Now we may have fallen behind the others, and the pointless fight will only continue to waste time; What do you think?"
This guy really understands what we're trying to do, Bell thought to himself. The frequency of demonic beasts at night is indeed very high, especially in areas with abundant natural resources such as the Baicao Forest, the only difference is that Bell's group has Amu who is quite familiar with the Baicao Forest. Bell originally planned to let Amu lead his team to the Baicao Forest after everyone settled down temporarily, and took the opportunity to get rid of Fred and the others, but Fred had already seen through it. However, there is one thing he said that reminds Bell that the chances of fighting monsters at night are high, and having a healer in the team is still very important.
Just as they were at a stalemate, a farmer slowly approached in the distance. He carried a hoe, hummed a tune, and shook his body, as if the moonlight of the night was shining for him alone.
"Hey, lads, are you strangers, do you need lodging, come to my house, and charge you fifty gold coins!" greeted the farmer warmly.
"Thank you, uncle, but we didn't plan to stay, and we're about to head to the Hundred Grass Forest!" Fred politely refused.
"Herb Forest?" the farmer suddenly laughed.
"What's the matter? what's so funny about the Hundred Grass Forest?" said Bell, frowning.
"A stranger is a stranger!" said the farmer, shaking his head, "at night, it is impossible to reach the Hundred Grass Forest!"
"Why?" Amu hurriedly asked when he heard that he couldn't reach the Baicao Forest at night, "Uncle, I grew up around here, and I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing!"
"Growing up here?" the farmer glanced at Amu, "Then you must have been away from here for a long time!
"What the hell is going on?" Fred said anxiously when he saw the way he swore an oath.
"It's not because of people!" The farmer suddenly said indignantly, "You all know that there is a forest of herbs in the Hundred Herb Forest, right?" Seeing everyone nodding, he continued, "As the name suggests, the Hundred Herbs Forest has a variety of precious medicinal herbs, and it is a huge treasure to the medical world. This also led to frequent mining by people from all walks of life, and later a chain of interests was formed, from mining to processing to selling to other regions, each node of this chain of interests obtained huge profits, and later there were various gangs, sometimes in order to grab a rare herb at any cost. Later, I don't know if there really is a wood spirit in the Hundred Grass Forest......"
"Wood Spirit?" the crowd wondered.
"That's just legend...... Perhaps the over-exploitation disturbed the Wood Spirit, and the Hundred Grass Forest produced a strange phenomenon, resulting in the disappearance of a large number of miners, and even a group of scientific researchers a few years ago. ”
"Is that what you call the forbidden zone?" the crowd looked at Amu.
"Forbidden Zone?" the farmer raised an eyebrow, "You know the forbidden zone?"
"That's ......," Amu recounted to him the forbidden area of the Hundred Grass Forest.
"That's right, in fact, you had this phenomenon in the Hundred Grass Forest when you were a child, but we hadn't figured out its laws at that time. The army had withdrawn two years ago, and had probably given up on the search for the missing people!" said the farmer.
Is that so, Amu and Fred glanced at each other, and the rumors of this forbidden area were only a little known to the two of them, but it could be regarded as confirming that they could not enter the Baicao Forest at a certain time.
"It's so dangerous, and you put the eligibility test there?" Mr. Trump said, with some displeasure.
"Qualification test, what are you going ......to the Hundred Grass Forest for?" asked the farmer.
"Knight qualification test, we are prospective knights at the Leiby Academy. Dona replied.
"I see...... Actually, don't worry too much, because we locals have figured out the law, as long as it's at night, you must not enter or leave the Baicao Forest - remember, it is in and out, that is, even if you are in the Baicao Forest, as long as you don't come out, there is no danger!"
"What a strange pattern!" Everyone was surprised.
"The aura of the Hundred Herbs Forest is abundant at night, and many precious herbs can only be found at night. However, even if it is safe to stay inside at night, it also scares off many people, after all, the demonic beasts that haunt at night are different from those during the day, even if they do not encounter the defense phenomenon of the Baicao Forest, the herb pickers are not willing to stay inside at night to face many demonic beasts. But for you knights, it shouldn't pose any threat!"
"Now it seems that we have to find a place to live. Bell said to Fred, seemingly helplessly.
"Wait, you believe what he says must be true?" Fred whispered.
"It's all right!" said the farmer with a humble smile, "I just want to make a little money, and I'll kindly remind you by the way, but if you have this confidence, that's okay!" With that, he picked up his hoe and turned to leave.
"Amu has also said all kinds of rumors about Baicao Forest before, in short, I would rather test it again next year than risk my life, I am in favor of setting off until dawn!" said Sophia, who had not spoken for a long time.
"Why don't we vote?" Amu suggested.
As a result, eight people were in favor of an early departure, and only Fred and Trump were against.
"Well, since everyone thinks so, let's set off at dawn!" Fred reluctantly agreed.
"That's right, young knights," said the farmer, turning around, probably because he had received another business, and his voice was a little louder than before, "don't be shy, I live alone anyway, and you can feel free to come out of the extra places!"
"By the way, uncle, I haven't asked for your name yet!" said Dona.
"Haha, you call me Reggie!" the farmer smiled heartily, and then spread his hands, "but pay the money first!"
"Of course!" said Bell, handing the gold to Reggie, "Look at the good Samaritans!"
"Well said, well said!" replied Reggie, smiling as he put away the gold coins.
So Reggie led the people to his house.
Reggie's house was not far from the train station, and in a short time, everyone arrived at their destination. There is a large courtyard from the entrance, and there are houses on the other three sides, except for the one facing the gate, and the other two have two rooms. Reggie put down his hoe and said to everyone: "I live in the house facing the gate, and you can arrange the rest yourself!"
"Uncle Reggie, do you usually live in such a big place by yourself?" Bell asked, looking around.
"Yes, I've been living alone since my brethren left here. But it's a waste to be empty, so once in a while, I'll take in some strangers like you to increase my income!" replied Reggie, obviously pleased with his idea.
"Finally, I can get some rest, I'm tired!" Sophia stretched and said, "Dona, let's share a room for the two of us!"
"Well, but add Alice!" Dona pointed at Fred, "She's the only girl over there!"
"Hey, I can't stand you!" Sophia pouted.
Alice nodded to Dona and didn't say anything, so the three of them chose a house first.
"Bell, Gary, we worked well together, why don't we share a room with the three of us?" Fred said with his head tilted over and said with a hippie smile, completely forgetting his previous toughness.
"Okay!" Bell was very happy and agreed directly.
"Cut, it's impossible to go again at night anyway. Gary said angrily.
"Alright, let's rest early, or we won't have the strength tomorrow!" Fred said to the crowd, too.
After two days of hard work, for the next few rounds of unknown tests, everyone chose their rooms to recover their strength.
On a spring night, the breeze is gentle, and the occasional barking of dogs is heard in the distance, and the thin clouds floating in the sky make the moonlight loom on the windows of the houses.
At this time, Bell was sleeping in the wing, he was shirtless, his head tilted, if there was a fish on the ground, it would surely swim into his mouth; Bell dreamed that he was at a lively party, surrounded by people in the shape of animals, but he did not feel strange, as if he was one of them; he took the wine glass handed by a man who looked like a bird, drank it up, then threw it down, and laughed; gradually he felt that his vision seemed to be a little blurred, and his heart was beating a little harder; he knelt down, and everyone else looked at him, laughing wantonly, and his originally distorted face became more and more strange, as if his kneeling action was so funny.
"Uh...... It's a little uncomfortable, if only I just slept on the floor!" Bell thought. At this moment, this feeling in the dream touched the brain reaction nerves that he had trained for many years, and the scene quickly changed, all the weirdos were sucked into a small hole, and the figures of Garay, Fred and others appeared in front of his eyes.
Am I not in the knight test?" Bell opened his eyes, jumped up quickly, grabbed Garay and Fred beside him, slammed open the door and rushed to the compound.
And Garay and Fred were also very quick to react, and when Bell grabbed the two, they immediately came to their senses, and when they saw Bell act like this, they knew that something was happening.
"Sleepy Grass's nerve gas!" Bell whispered, "If Tori hadn't used it on us before, we would have been planted here today!"
"The people here are really masters of medicine, and they can actually concoct this colorless and odorless poisonous gas!" Fred said in a deep voice.
"What a place of right and wrong. Gary scolded, "I want to get some rest!"
"Go wake up the others!" Bell said hurriedly, looking around.
As soon as the words fell, Sophia and Amu from the other two rooms also rushed out.
"What about the others?" Bell asked.
"They all seem to be poisoned, they should be sleepy grass!" Amu and Sophia looked at each other and replied.
"Haha, stinky boys, your ability is good!" Uncle Reggie, who had a kind face before, walked out with a hideous face, followed by many younger brothers, "Lao Tzu doesn't talk nonsense, you don't want money or life, hand over all the things on your body, and then get out of here!"
"It's only been two days to meet two robberies, and I'm really annoyed!" said Garre, exasperated.
"Really, is this one of the tests that the academy gave us?" Fred also looked a little helpless.
"Who knows," said Amu, "in my experience, this is a kind of sleepy grass that concocts nerve gas, and the brain of the poisoned person will go into permanent dormancy if he is not healed within two hours!"
"How terrifying! are these robbers so mad?" said Sophia, casting her staff, glowing with a faint purple glow.
"Reggie, you're still underestimating us!" Bell's meta began to circulate again.
"Hehe, don't give me a lot of strength, do you think I don't know that the so-called knight academy is some garbage that no one cares about? The strength is just like this, Lao Tzu has been here for decades, how can he survive until now without two brushes! Huddle, give it to me!" After speaking, Reggie took two steps back.
Suddenly, a pitch-black shadow rushed over and knocked the sword in Garay's hand to the ground! Everyone was taken aback: "What a speed!"
"Hmph, Warcraft Cerberus, you guys should find a way to defeat it first!"
Cerberus, all black, with red markings on his back, known for his extreme speed and sharp teeth, is good at seizing the enemy's loose gaps to attack, and when he is angry, the pupils will turn red, the newborn Cerberus has only one red markings on his back, and the stronger the strength, the more stripes, I saw Hurdl spitting out a scarlet tongue, his eyes showing a fierce light, staring closely at Garay and them, and at the same time, there were many people around them who were also eyeing them.
"Oh no, this Cerberus has seven markings on its back, it's at the level of the King of Dogs!" Amu said a little nervously.
Hearing this, Bell and the others looked solemn and had to get serious.
Huddle paced around slowly, and suddenly he seemed to notice a weakness, and he couldn't hold back anymore and pounced on him!
"Heder!" At this moment, a loud roar came from the roof, and I saw that the Cerberus suddenly stopped in the air, fell to the ground, and immediately got up again, the red around the pupils gradually faded, and the eyes were expectant and a little soft, it was facing the man on the roof, and its tail was shaking so that people were afraid that it would fall down.
"Old ...... Old...... The boss !!" Reggie looked at it and was immediately frightened.
"Raj ???!!!"