Zhou Shu and his party, who were rescued by a group of stone men who emerged from the ground, continued to rush towards the target town.

They didn't dare to go to the mainland now, they didn't dare to go directly to the Temple City, and they had to stay in the town for a day or two to prevent the cavalry from continuing to chase them.

Zhou Shu manipulated the stone man to shoot all the horses of those cavalry to death, which can be regarded as delaying the other party's tracking, so they are relatively safe now.

"What the hell are those stones? It's terrifying, are they humans who are dressed in stones and live underground?"

It was the first time Ou Na had heard of the 'stone man' creature, and the next morning after she fled, she was still struggling with the topic, and she had been struggling with it for a long time last night.

Zhou Shu is very strange, there are no legends of such things as 'Mountain Giant', 'Earth Element' and 'Murphy Behemoth' in this world. It stands to reason that no matter what kind of civilization human beings have, when the level of civilization is not high, they should have very sufficient fantasies about nature. As the most common thing in nature, stone can easily trigger people's brains. Whether it's a stone monkey or a rock race or whatever, there's always something that has been passed down to the world, and Ou Na hasn't heard of it at all.

As the maker of the stone man, Zhou Shu didn't want to talk about this topic. When she was camping last night, Ou Na ran to Zhou Shu under the pretext of wanting pocket money and asked for a car with him.

Zhou Shu felt that this guy probably knew the marrow, and Sparrow and Triska didn't mind this kind of behavior, so the two sides who needed it solved each other's problems.∧ When she was sleeping, Ou Na rarely ran to the carriage to sleep, hugged Zhou Shu and talked for an hour before going to bed, basically talking about those stone people.

Zhou Shu, who thought that he had been annoyed all night and could stop a little the next day, found that he was wrong. In order not to talk about this topic. He began to interrupt.

"Haven't you heard of similar creatures? There are many of them in my country. ”

It seems that the topic is still talking about the stone people, but the essence has been turned into 'folklore' and 'my country' by Zhou Shu. With his ability to control topics and the skills provided by absorbing knowledge in college, it's no problem fooling these little girls.

Triska says that she has only heard of the legend that there are Patronus Gods in the depths of the forest that no one believes in, and that if you find those Patronus and believe in them, you will be their savior, and then the only believer will become the owner of the Patronus.

"When I was younger, I always ran into the woods. I want to find no one's faith, lose my power, and become the patron saint of ordinary animals. As a result, they found a bunch of ordinary animals and offered them offerings, and then all those animals were killed and eaten for meat. ”

As the daughter of a rich man in a small town, Quexi knows a lot about all kinds of legends. She reminisced a little, talking about legendary creatures like winged half-blood demigod humans, 'shapeshifters' who could turn into animals, and a few others.

After listening to these legends, Zhou Shu made a little summary, "All of them are related to animals......

Sparrow frowned. was reminded by Zhou Shu to discover this. "Indeed, why is there no legend of a stone turning into a creature? or clouds, or water, or whatever, if the legend is all fantasy, it should be reasonable that these things are brought to life in fantasy, right?"

Zhou Shu sighed, "No way, who made your god an animal god, and it's normal for your imagination to be limited to animals." ”

"Oh?" Fincy found a topic of interest to herself. "And what kind of legends do you have in your country?"

Don't talk about legends, there are already a lot of things that Zhou Shu has seen with his own eyes.

For example, vampires. Although it is not afraid of the sun, does not hate garlic, can survive running water, and is infected by biting rather than drinking its own blood, vampires are vampires.

There are also gargoyles, which are carved out of stone to give them life. It's not the kind of legend that it can only be active at night, but it has something.

"Your legendary creatures aren't all nocturnal, isn't that a common denominator?"

After Zhou Shujiang knew some of the things he knew, he was decisively found common ground by Quexi. He smiled, but he could explain the problem. "These legends are supposed to scare children into going to bed early, so all monsters are known to be active at night. ”

In fact, this is just a statement and one of the reasons, human beings are naturally afraid of the unknown, and the night represents the unknown, and it is natural that some unknown creatures appear at night.

Quexi likes to listen to Zhou Shu completely interrupt the topic of stone people provoked by Ou Na to other places with these things. "What else, stranger, are there any interesting monster legends in your hometown. ”

Generally speaking, folklorists are more aware of this deep strangeness, but Zhou Shu can also casually say things like the Drought Fish, the Wet Maiden, and the Durla Khan.

The categories of these three things are corpses, people, and souls, and they happen to be combined into a set to talk about it, so he said.

As for zombies that can cause drought and female monsters that look terrifying, Sparrow has little interest. As for the Headless Horseman Durla Khan from Ireland, she asked a lot.

It was hard for her to imagine what it was like to be separated from her head and body, and she didn't know anything about the origin of this legend, which should involve the cultural background of the birthplace of many legends. For example, the popular decapitation culture and knightly culture in Ireland back then, it is not clear that Durrah Khan came from an Irish idler who was in a daze at the knight's armor, and the head of the armor happened to be held in the hand of the armor at that time.

The monster genre didn't frighten the three women in the brigade, they were all quite realistic people.

"It's time for lunch!" After the topic was snatched away, Ou Na held back until noon before she had a chance to speak again.

Zhou Shu looked at the sky and asked, "How far is it from the town on your map?"

"If you're unlucky, tomorrow should be here too. ”

The group of four left the main road and traveled on the small road, so luck became a very important thing in the journey. No one knows if there will be rivers or high slopes and low ground on the road ahead, but if the road is smooth, the town will be a few hours away.

"Since it's not far away, don't bother cooking. Zhou Shu rummaged through the car and found portable food. "Let's eat this!" What he grabbed in his hand was the high-grade bacon that Ou Na bought from Shuncheng, which was also a proof that Ou Na was no longer willing to save money for Zhou Shu.

Ou Na was very happy to hear that she could eat bacon, so she grabbed her share of meat and drove the car to chew happily while continuing to move. It's a pity that rivers, high slopes, lowlands. They all ran into these three unfortunate things on a short journey from the town, and everyone had to sleep in the woods that night, which was very dangerous. At least Ouna felt dangerous.

Since she ate good things at noon, Ou Na still wanted to continue to eat portable food at dinner, and did not want to cook corn. Her appetite is hard to satisfy, and it takes enough food to be suppressed when she is hung up. Zhou Shu fulfilled her request, but at night, Ou Na still went to the place where he was sleeping and asked him a problem.

Ou Na took out her purse from the pocket of her clothes, which contained the change she earned from selling spring to Zhou Shu yesterday. In addition to money, there is also something that makes Master Zhou very embarrassed. a plastic wrapper.

"Zhou Shu. Can you explain to me what this thing is?"

Master Zhou stared at the plastic packaging of the chicken leg of the country guy, and sweated profusely on his back. He had completely forgotten that he had given it to Triska to eat, and he didn't remember that he had taken it out and eaten it, and he was puzzled that Ou Na was able to get such a thing. It's pretty weird for him.

Fortunately, Ona didn't sell it, and told the truth about what Triska had secretly noticed on the first night she joined the team.

"What exactly did you give Traceska to eat that day?" ”

As she said this, she undid Zhou Shu's trouser pocket, and a faithful hand reached into his pants.

Ou Na is a child of a poor family, who has a pair of rough hands since she was a child.

Held by others. Master Zhou had no choice but to tell her the truth. Zhou Shu pretended to touch the travel supplies beside him, and then secretly touched the space props. Take out the food from it.

Ou Na looked at the small snacks that could be seen everywhere in the supermarket, hehe laughed, and grabbed the things in his hand hard, "Don't fool me, it's right that the thing is this, but how did you get it out?" There's no such thing there. ”

Helplessly, Zhou Shu opened the food packaging bag and stuffed the small chicken leg into her mouth.

"Why are you so curious? Can't you eat honestly?"

Ou Na ate the fragrant chicken thighs and was touched by the taste.

Spices in Higashino Kuni are relatively expensive, and most of the food ingredients are salt and sugar, and salt is not cheap. How to use salt correctly is an essential skill for chefs. For example, Ou Na herself prefers to process food with coarse salt grains, and roll the food in the coarse salt grains before putting it in the pot.

For the taste of modern processed cooked food with complex tastes, Ou Na has never felt it before. Although this thing may not be very tasty, the fresh taste is enough to shock Ouna.

"Why don't you spit out bones?" Zhou Shu stared at Ou Na who was chewing heavily, and soon he heard a crunching sound coming from that mouth, and then Ou Na moved her throat and swallowed all the chewed food. "Well, when I didn't say it. ”

On this night, Ou Na also had a rare supper during the trip. Zhou Shu took out his treasured snacks and fed her, and there was a feeling of feeding small animals. As for the origin of the thing, he didn't say it directly, but simply conjured it out of thin air to show Ou Na, as for how much she could understand, it was her own business.

Zhou Shu has not experienced the life of a rich man, although he can rely on his relationship with Asuka to get a large amount of money from the Fool store manager, and he does not need to return it. However, he basically has no experience in spending large sums of money except for buying a house and saving, and he doesn't know how to enjoy it after having money.

In the castles and palaces of the White Moon Kingdom, the most enjoyable thing is to take a bath in a heated bathroom the size of a swimming pool, regardless of the luxury of architecture, it is not as comfortable as his jacuzzi.

In contrast, Ou Na not only did not have any enjoyable experiences, but experienced all kinds of suffering. For her, being able to sleep with a gentle man and enjoy delicious food is the happiest thing.

Zhou Shu tried his best not to wake up Traceska and Fincy to satisfy Ou Na, although it was to satisfy her, he still paid afterwards. For Ou Na. Giving her money will make her feel better. Ou Na is not ready to like Zhou Shu, she has always been forced to do this kind of thing with Zhou Shu, it is just an ordinary transaction, and Zhou Shu also understands this.

As for the strange food conjured out of his hands, Master Zhou didn't explain, nor did he ask Ou Na how she guessed. Ouna put away her curiosity, and she asks him too much to let the good luck slip away. For the first time, she felt lucky.

After two days of driving the carriage through the woods, it was at last possible that he found a road for the carriage to pass through and came to the town he had planned.

In the past two days, Ou Na's wallet has been filled with Zhou Shu's gold coins. Zhou Shu originally only planned to give her a small amount of money, and he was still worried that Ou Na would get rid of herself and drive herself out of the brigade after she had money. After he ran out of change, he had to use gold coins in order to pay Ou Na Piao.

Last night, Zhou Shu's head was in the water for a while, and he said something quite out of bounds to Ou Na.

"How much do you get paid to wrap you up. So that you won't do this kind of thing with others in the future?"

Ou Na smiled and patted Zhou Shu's side face a few times, "Think beautifully, it's impossible, you're just one of my guests!"

Zhou Shu was very disappointed, and at the same time ashamed of his unnecessary possessiveness, which was a rather contradictory couple. In the morning, he was still a little sullen, and Ou Na saw it and took the initiative to apply for a free good morning bite for him, but was rejected.

"Travelled for so many days. If you're not clean, don't do that. ”

"What if I say I don't mind?"

"I don't mind. You go catch the car!"

Zhou Shu suddenly sensed some ominous premonitions on the morning of this day. He had expected it to be Triska, a pregnant woman in labor, but the carriage had been bumping around in the woods for the past few days, making her a little uncomfortable. If it was an ordinary pregnant woman, even if there were no bumps, it is estimated that this would have already been vomited all over the ground, and Tracea's physical condition was extremely strong.

The bad premonition wasn't with Tricka, and it wasn't with Sparrow. Zhou Shu always felt that Ou Na seemed to have some situation in the next few days.

He didn't think that this was the power brought by the sixth sense of the martial artist, even the sick princess of the moon-level internal organs didn't have such a powerful sixth sense, otherwise she wouldn't have been drenched in fire oil and set on fire when she officially met with Zhou Shu for the first time.

Zhou Shu can only classify this feeling as his own oversensitivity, which is unnecessary. Noon on the same day. Ouna drove the carriage and finally made it out of the woods, and the legendary town that was perfect for Tryska to stay was right in front of her.

Emerging from the woods, the group came to the town. This town is very close to the Holy City of the Eastern Country, and it has been infected by some Holy Cities, and the inhabitants are very reverent to the guardian spirit.

Ou Na didn't know about this kind of thing in advance, and she only learned about it when Zhou Shu was denied entry to the town.

"Why don't you allow the seafarers to enter the town?! It wasn't him who did that kind of thing, he was just an ordinary legend...... Uh, ordinary seafarer merchants!"

Ou Na will fight for Zhou Shu and a group of middle-aged men and women dressed in clergy clothes at the entrance of the town. When entering the town, Zhou Shu was turned away from the town, because the enemy official who had killed a large number of the patron saints of the East Country was a seafarer.

Que Xi also argued for Zhou Shu with an unhappy face, "The person who did that kind of thing is not him, is it necessary to punish all the seafarers?

The clergy who stopped Zhou Shu were not so ruthless, "We're just worried that we can upset some of the Patronus, not the seafarers." Although this gentleman is not allowed to enter the town, we have prepared a lodging for him outside the town, and we will not neglect him. ”

Zhou Shu was finally left in a yellow mud room worse than Kernan's house, and he turned on the search function of the Book of Summoning for microorganisms, which he used to turn off when he thought it was disgusting. From the results of the examination, he found that there were a large number of pathogenic bacteria in the house, as well as many dangerous parasites and other disgusting things.

"I'll die if I live here......"

Zhou Shu reluctantly said goodbye to Ou Na, Qixi and Triska. The three girls had no choice but to leave Zhou Shu here. Ou Na grabbed Zhou Shu's hand with an apologetic face, "We still have to find a place for Triska to stay, and wronged you to sleep in the open for a few more days." ”

Finally learned that the woman was cruel and Zhou Shu was left in that terrible house, a place on the outskirts of the town where people with infectious diseases were housed, and there were many volunteers who took care of some poor people who were suffering from infectious diseases. Zhou Shu stood outside the door, and what caught his eye was the same dilapidated house. The patients sat listlessly outside the house basking in the sun, and many more moaned and coughed in pain. And the medical staff wearing masks can do very little for these people, except for cleaning as much as possible, they can only hold clay pots and pour water for these people.

"Do you need a glass of water?" Mr. Haike. ”

A very beautiful little girl came to Zhou Shu with a jar, and Zhou Shu only saw the masked woman's face clearly from the Book of Summoning. He really needed water, bath water.

So Zhou Shu took out two gold coins and stuffed them into the girl's hand. "Tub, clean towels, and bath water, I can get you two more if you can get them for me. ”

The town is not wealthy, and although there is a lot of arable land, there are very few men. There is nothing in this town that can attract outsiders, and only a single mother like Traceska would want to find such a peaceful town to live in. To put it simply, the town was relatively poor, lacked labor, and had land to cultivate food, so it had to be converted into an orchard that could be easily tended by a woman.

In a country where capitalism has not yet taken power. The economic behavior is not developed, at least not fully enveloped in this town, the fruit in the orchard is often not sold, and the life of ordinary people in the town is still relatively hard.

The girl pursed her lips and took the gold coin with trembling hands in disbelief.

"Is this real gold?"

Zhou Shu sighed and said helplessly: "You can go home and ask your parents, they should be clear." ”

The little girl is just an adult at most, and Zhou Shu is too lazy to talk to her more. The little girl heard the stranger in front of her say this. Rather embarrassed, he smiled wryly, "My parents died in the room behind you. Severe colds. ”

A severe cold can kill people..................

Zhou Shu felt as if he had come to Europe in the Dark Ages, but he knew very well that in the early decades, there were often people in the land of his motherland who lost their lives due to some minor illnesses and disasters.

"By the way, I can ask the priest!" the girl seemed to be very excited, and walked out like a golden rabbit. was grabbed by Zhou Shu. "Don't bother, you can use this gold coin directly to buy a bath bucket and firewood, and the shopkeeper will definitely be able to share it. Don't bother your priests, they're busy. ”

"You're right!" The girl who was not clever at all jumped away, and Zhou Shu sighed. Worried about this girl's future. His reason for preventing the girl from going to the clergy was simple, one word, fear.

He didn't know much about the character of the clergy in this country, but he firmly believed in the logic of sexual evil. When the clergy became a class above the common people, with privileges and rights, and the rights were not fettered......

The result is simple: under a bad system, the whole class will become greedy and shameless. There are certainly so-called 'good people' among them, but the vast majority of them will be 'evil people' who follow human nature and use power for profit.

Zhou Shu was worried that exposing his wealth to those clergy would cause unnecessary trouble, but he really had no change, so he could only take risks, hoping that the girl could do things neatly.

The first night spent in this town, Zhou Shu was relatively comfortable. The three girls didn't come out again when they went to the town, and with the protection of beetles, Zhou Shu was not worried.

He spent the night in that horrible room, revealing the little girl whose parents had died in the room. This girl quickly got what Zhou Shu wanted, and then built several stoves with stones, boiled water and waited for him to take a bath.

When Zhou Shu took out the other two agreed rewards, the girl said that she wanted to earn more, so she was caught in the bathtub and washed together.

It was the girl's first time, and she didn't mind being left in such a place with a story for her for the first time. Zhou Shu was very strange, why a girl who was so casual for money would come here to volunteer, take care of those patients, and ask while touching the girl's ass while taking a bath.

"Volunteers don't really come voluntarily, that's just a noun. The girl said that she would have to take care of the sick here for six months before she could get a job as a cleaner at the temple in the town. "But I have gold now, and I don't need that job. Thank you so much, generous outlander. ”