The taste of being struck by scarlet lightning was very uncomfortable, and more than ten minutes had passed, and the lean man was still suffering from the rest of the rhyme, twitching from time to time. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The person has been caught in his hands, Li Yun is not in a hurry to interrogate, he is also quite annoyed by this person's previous non-cooperation, he might as well let him suffer a little, save a while and mess around.

The young man who partnered with this person was woken up, and he was a little scared at first, but finally chose to believe Li Yun, after all, Li Yun's side had completely controlled the situation, and he could still talk to each other, and it seemed that there was really no evil intention.

"My name is Darth, his name is Jeremy, and his surname is Goffrey, and the Goffrey family was a nobleman in East Kamaran, with three farmsteads and a castle town, but I knew that when Jeremy's father's generation declined. ”

Li Yun nodded, he couldn't determine whether what a person said was true or false, but he could detect the true emotions of the other party, so except for those who were professionally trained or had special abilities, it was difficult for ordinary people to deceive him with lies.

This young man named Darth is probably not yet 20 years old, but Jeremy is in his early 40s, and it is normal that he doesn't know much about Jeremy.

"Tell me about your lives. It wasn't long ago that I learned from the Shadow Werewolf that there was a dark town in the middle of the mountains. Li Yun said, leaning against the wooden fence guarding the road.

The wooden fence to protect the road is to inhibit the spread of shrubs and weeds to the road, combined with the street lights that there are every few tens of meters, it can be seen that the people living here are very careful to build their own homes.

"It's not a dark town, it's a night town. Das corrected.

"Night Town, that's appropriate. Li Yun said again: "However, the darkness is so thick, it has only happened in recent years, right?"

"That's how it has been for as long as I can remember, more than 10 years. ”

That is, there was a change here when Servis began to implement his dark plan. Li Yun thought to himself, and vaguely felt like he had grasped an important clue.

Decay always starts at the point, and the dark erosion that occurs in Kamaran is probably not able to break this pattern. He had always thought that the original point of decay was the huge cemetery in Crow City, which thrived in the funeral industry. Now it seems that Kamaran is more like a piece of moldy bread, and Servis may have chosen the Crow City as the root of his business, but the other mold spots may not be unrelated to it.

"Do you know why you chose to move here in the first place?"

Darth nodded, "In order to escape the scourge of war, the Shadow Werewolf instructed us to hide here, where the Dark Mist and Poisonous Thorns keep orcs, headhunters, and marauders out. ”

"So you have a good relationship with the Shadow Werewolves?"

Darth shook his head, "It used to be good, but then it wasn't. Many people in the town say that the Shadow Werewolf didn't have a good idea of settling here when he first instructed us, so much so that we couldn't leave if we wanted to. ”

"If you're determined enough, you can still get out of these mountains, right?"

Darth shook his head and explained, "In order to live in this night forest, we all eat a special plant, graveyard moss. As he spoke, he unfastened his armor and exposed his chest, and saw that where his left chest was facing his heart, dark green veins like roots spread out, like green tendons that appeared, but they were much more serious. Das further explained: "Too much light can cause our skin to blister and fester, and we can't get out of the forest until it's cloudy. ”

Matt interjected, "Since it's harmful, why don't you stop or reduce the dosage?"

"In that case, we won't be able to lose our sense of sound, and we won't be able to live normally in the night forest. ”

It turns out that the people of Nighttown mainly live in the dark forest by relying on the sound wave discrimination ability similar to that of bats, after all, many times, it is impossible to have such convenience as street lighting.

Beckett said: "The side effects are so serious, you even choose them?"

"At the beginning, we didn't, and using the boiling method taught to us by the Shadow Werewolf, we only needed a lot of exercise to get rid of the toxins, but now we can't. ”

Matt said, "It's probably because the darkness has increased the toxins in the graveyard moss, and it's unfair to blame the Shadow Werewolves." ”

"That's what some people in the town think too. But the other group, led by the Baldwin family, insisted that it was the fault of the Shadow Werewolves. And Marlowe, of the Baldwin family, is the consul of Nighttown. ”

Beckett hugged his shoulders and snorted coldly, "If you can help, it's fine, if you can't help, blame, these people really can." ”

Matt also echoed: "There are always such people who take other people's contributions for granted, and once they stop supporting, they will have resentment. Saying that, he said to Li Yun: "Teacher, such a person is not worth helping. ”

Beckett agreed with Matt's point of view, saying, "We are here to find clues to solve the werewolf scourge once and for all, and there is no need to get bogged down in the quagmire of right and wrong in Night Town. ”

"Don't jump to conclusions. Li Yun said: "We help each other and don't expect each other to be grateful." Just ask for a clear conscience. Of course, everything is based on what we can do. ”

After that, I chatted with Darth for a while, and the situation in Nightlight Town was basically clear.

It can be said that Kamalan is suffering from dark erosion, and the first thing that goes wrong is a dark place like the Night Forest. It's just that without Serves stirring up, the problem here isn't the dramatic lurking and then bursting out like the Manns, but getting worse little by little like a frog boiled in warm water. It gives people the feeling that today's natural disasters and man-made disasters are not going well, but in the second year, they found that they were not as good as last year, and they deteriorated year after year.

Das also concluded: "I have become a night watchman, the situation is already very bad, and there have been several requests for help from the outside world, but Marlowe and others, who are in charge of government affairs, do not agree. ”

"Why?" asked Matt.

"Marlowe said that today's lords are all greedy and insidious, and if we go to ask for help, not only will we not get help, but we will lose the wealth we have accumulated so hard, and we will end up miserable. ”

Beckett sneered: "Nonsense. As he spoke, he pointed at Li Yun and said, "This one in front of you, the apostle of the moon god, the master who is good at using the power of the night moon, the master of the Blood Moon Wilderness and the Dead Cold Hills, he selflessly helped the Mann people and rescued them from the edge of the evil abyss without asking for anything in return. ”

Matt mended: "So, what kind of people see what kind of world. That Marlowe had a greedy and sinister look in his eyes, and I felt sorry for him, how much his world was darker than the night forest, and how painful it was. How did such a person become an archon at that time?"

Li Yundao: "Stop here, we will no longer talk about people behind our backs, we will only talk about things." As it happens, the people of Nightlight are in a series of troubles like the winter rainy season, which makes them more and more isolated and xenophobic, and they are desperate for help, but they fear that outsiders will interfere and make things worse. After all, outsiders can't do anything when they see things, they can pat their butts and leave, but they can't leave this land. ”

These words made Dars's impression of Li Yun further better. He felt that Li Yun's position was fair and very considerate.

Matt said: "Teacher, can the problem of cemetery moss be solved as we did before? I see that the people of Night Town live in such a forest, and they eat cemetery moss, I am afraid that they have long been eroded by the darkness, maybe a thorough dark ritual and the belief in the moon god can save them." ”

"I've been trying to learn about plants, but I still feel that my abilities are shallow and limited. This is the first time I've heard of cemetery moss, and it's hard to jump to conclusions without confirming its nature. What's more, the situation in Nighttown is different from that of Mann Territory, Mann Territory had obvious enemies, Serves, evil minions, but Nighttown did not have such external pressure, I guess most people are holding on to luck and are unwilling to face the severe pain and upheaval, which is also an important reason why Marlowe Baldwin can come to power. ”

Beckett said: "Therefore, even if we lend a helping hand, the aided have to cooperate with the same hand, in order to talk about a hand and pull out of the quagmire, they hold the illusion of bottoming out, choose to let themselves a little lower limit, we have no choice." ”

Matt was silent, Li Yun was silent, Das had nothing to say, and Beckett's words were harsh, but they were basically close to the truth. Unless you can see the benefits to the people of Night Town immediately, it will be difficult to reverse their thoughts, but this kind of accumulated heavy squeezes basically do not have the possibility of curing the disease, but will be as difficult as losing weight, and it will recur if you are not careful.

Always encountering such a bad situation, Li Yun sometimes feels resentful. But if you think about it carefully, if it is an ordinary thing, it will be solved early in the morning, why will it be dragged into a chronic disease?

Putting the heart of the Virgin aside, Li Yun began to interrogate Jeremy, although he guessed the wrong name, he was sure that Jeremy must know something, otherwise he would not behave so abnormally.

"The Vincennes are dead, dead by Godfrey's revenge. Jeremy wasn't a tough man, and the physical torture caused by the scarlet lightning made him explain the situation in one fell swoop and tell a little-known story.

It even goes back to Jeremy's grandfather's generation.

Everyone knows that there is an excellent iron mine in East Kamalan, and the town of Redstone that thrives because of it, but few people know that the former Earl of East Kamalan relied more on a silver mine, the Honey Badger Valley Silver Mine.

The Honey Badger Valley was originally called the Valley of the Viper, where there were many snakes and poisonous, and later the silver mine was discovered, and the Earl of East Camalan got the Honey Badger from Heerlens to stock, and the poisonous snakes gradually decreased, and the Honey Badger Valley came from this, but most people still have the impression that it is the Valley of the Viper, and few people go.

Gaufrey became a nobleman, mainly because the Earl of Ty's family guarded and mined the silver mines. It was the turn of such an errand because one of the daughters of the Goldfrey family was favored by the Count at a noble party and became the Count's favorite outer chamber.

However, the silver mine was discovered by the Vincent family, and the Gao Frey family stabbed a knife, so that Vincent, the discoverer of the silver mine, was cut off from even getting some oil and water, and this revenge can be compared to the murderous parents.

Of course, the most unpleasant thing in the whole incident is actually the earl, and the removal of the title of Earl of Donkamaran is definitely inseparable from this person who can't be a man. The peak hates it, colleagues are estranged, and the people don't support it, and the bane is accumulated by one bad thing after another, and the removal of the knight is just the appearance.

The Vincennes family did not dare to reason with the earl, but found the Gao Frey family, which was obviously suspected of bullying the weak and afraid of the hard. But in reality, it's not that simple.

The Vincent family originally chose to forbear, his family took prospecting as their home school, and what they discovered was not only the silver mine of Honey Badger Valley, which was very popular with the big lords. It's not just about the right to mine a silver mine.

The main silver deposit of the Honey Badger Valley was exhausted, and the Earl made it public and bought the mine.

This method of fishing Kaizi is quite disgusting, but in the end, it was the Vincent family who took over, and at that time, the Gao Frey family also digested the waste that the Vincent family spent a lot of money to eat the leftover scum eaten by others. However, the Vincennes family is famous for prospecting, and they have the ability to find the precious Mithril on the basis of the silver ore.

The public price of Mithril and gold is 1:10, but there is no market, and the black market is often speculated to 1:15 or more. Instead of examining their inferiority, the Goldfrey family coveted wealth and said that I was a legitimate miner of silver, and the Count agreed, but we didn't agree yet.

At that time, the earl had already withdrawn the knighthood, how could he have the heart to be an arbiter, heard that the silver mine had produced Mithril, and in order to save the title, he promised it to the Holy See.

Not only did Gao Frey not eat fat, but he was also forced to make false accounts and embezzle wealth by spitting out real medicines, and he was defeated overnight.

This family is also fierce and bold, taking advantage of the precarcity of the earl and the inability of the Holy See to arrive in time, organized people to forcibly mine, and killed the head of the Vincent family who reached an agreement with the Holy See and was looking for the Mithril deposit in the mine.

After that, the people of the Gao Frey family, together with the mining, all died, torn, gnawed, and died in an extremely miserable state.

This incident should have been quite sensational, but the earl was withdrawn and the population migrated, and people no longer had the heart to pay attention to this kind of after-dinner.

But the Gao Frey family, who is the party concerned, naturally hates the Vincent family to the root, because only his family has the most sufficient reason to kill, and many people know that the Vincent family saved the werewolf when they were prospecting, and they can talk to the werewolf.

Later, some of the people of the original earl's order chose to take refuge in the Night Forest, which was also the matchmaking of the Vincennes family.

Later, people began to complain that the Shadow Werewolf had bad intentions at the beginning, and the Vincent family was naturally implicated. Jeremy staged a humiliating Jedi counterattack, stabbing out the grievances between the Vincennes and the Goldfrey family. He didn't need to say anything in particular, just the death of the GFREY family at the beginning was easy to remind people of the way werewolves killed, so they exiled the Vincennes family, in the name of eliminating potential hidden dangers, in fact, they let the Vincennes family die without wanting blood on their hands.

So today, the more important Li Yun said about the matter, the more Jeremy was afraid and wanted to obstruct it, because there was no evidence that the Vincent family had instructed the werewolves to slaughter the Gofrey family, and the Gofrey family killed the head of the Vincent family, and even tried to banish the Vinson family, but it is a fact that there are countless witnesses.

Matt and Beckett were very sympathetic to the Vincennes family, and Matt pointed at Jeremy and said bluntly: "This kind of person, damn it!"

Beckett chimed in: "Death is cheaper for him." ”

Li Yun didn't want to talk about right and wrong, he asked, "Where did Vincent's family go, do you know?"

Jeremy shook his head, and Das said, "At that time, they went south and west along the road from the south of town. There are probably people in the town who know that the Vincent family was very popular at the beginning and helped many people. ”

Beckett already had a deep prejudice against the people of Nighttown, and sarcastically said: "He is very popular, and he has helped many people, but no one is willing to stand up and speak up at a critical time, so that his family is left to fend for itself." I really made a bunch of good friends and good neighbors. ”

Darth blushed and bowed his head and muttered, "You don't know how powerful Baldwin is......"

How powerful the Baldwin family is, let's put it this way, all the people who live in this area are looking up to people, and this person is the Baldwin family. Because the whole area is still relatively intact now, only Nightshade is left, and the main operators of Nightshade Town are none other than the Baldwin family.

Li Yun released Jeremy and said, "We will not participate in the grievances between the Vincennes family and the Goldfrey family. ”

Jeremy didn't expect Li Yun to let him go so gently, and he was a little overwhelmed there.

Matt and Beckett were also a little surprised, and Li Yun said: "We are not messengers of justice walking in the world, we have not been convicted or judged, especially in the absence of sufficient evidence. As I've said before, Nighttown is different from Mann Lord, where the Mannes were kept in the dark and the Fergos have the power and responsibility to lead the people. And here, we're just passers-by, and the people of Nightshade know what happened to them and what was happening. They made a choice, and naturally they had to bear the consequences for it. So saying, he led the horse and walked forward.

Beckett whispered to Matt, "Does the teacher mean to ignore the people of Nightshade and leave them to fend for themselves?"

Matt shrugged: "It's hard to say, but the teacher will definitely not rush to beg the people here to save him this time." ”

"That would be tantamount to leaving them to fend for themselves, the people here are already stupid." ”......

The two talked small and followed behind Li Yun. The road is a gravel road, in addition to the guardrail on both sides there is a ditch, there is water in the ditch, obviously it also rained here during the day, but the road surface is not muddy, it can be seen that the people of the night town have good road repair skills and good maintenance.

In fact, there are many details that show that the people of Nightlight have a higher level of skill than the craftsmen of Blue Night Keep. For example, the armor worn by Jeremy and Das.

Leather armor bottom, chain mail piece, reasonable design, exquisite craftsmanship, **** side of the chain mail piece to stitch, leather cord, buckle three ways fixed on the shoulder, chest, waist and other parts, close to the compact, can perfectly outline the human body shape, as a standard product, to achieve this level is not easy, you must know that even in the prosperous kingdom of the mainland, chain mail can be divided into large, medium and small sizes, will be praised: excellent armor, sympathetic soldiers. Fitting armor, in addition to being custom-made, can only be obtained by going to those big workshops to try your luck.

Li Yun also noticed some details. For example, the night forest is very humid, whether it is chain mail, scale armor, armor, plate armor, but whenever metal is used, it is easy to rust. However, Jeremy and Das's chainmail pieces do not have this problem, not only in terms of maintenance, but also in the fact that they were made with this aspect in mind. He believes that the armor maker achieves his goal through the smelting process and the auxiliary links afterwards. The technical level of this set of processes is not low.

In addition, the leather part of the armor, a very important problem of leather armor is that it is particularly covered, wearing leather armor is easy to cause sweat in summer, sweat in winter, cold and penetrating. This kind of problem is generally solved by opening the air hole. But in reality it is not ideal. He noticed that Jeremy and Das's armor did not open a lot of air holes, but made a fuss on the inner lining, sweat-absorbing and exhausting, like a small bellows, as long as it moved, the armor would 'breathe', which showed that not only the materials were exquisite, but the design was also very clever. And this technology is still universal, if it is a practical magic or something to solve the problem, the cost will be high and scary.

Weapons and street lamps are also very skilled, and these details indicate that Nightlight is home to excellent craftsmen and workshops, as well as knowledgeable and clever creators, and he even suspects that the best of the Earls of East Kamaran have gathered here.

You must know that under normal circumstances, the manufacturing industry follows the market. There is a demand market, craftsmen can serve this rice bowl, so that the technology inheritance and even improvement, the closed system of the night town, where is there such a big demand? So how can these advanced technologies be inherited? Only the kind of generation that makes a living from this, and indeed has something unique, will withstand the pressure of life to pass on the craft to children and grandchildren, and place hope on the future.

On the long road guided by the street lamp, the three of them met the patrolling night watchman again, who was also full of vigilance and bad tone, Li Yun didn't bother to explain to these people, only said that it was a traveler, and the night watchman scoffed at this statement, but did not make it as difficult as Jeremy, but chose to let it go.

"It's weird. Beckett said, "Teacher, since these people live in the night forest, why do they have to open up this road for maintenance?

"Living in the forest, but with hope beyond the forest, they are also human, not elven druids who enjoy the company of the jungle. ”

After walking for a while, there was a gate in front of it, and there were stout ancient trees on the left and right, not too heavy stone walls, and on both sides of the road stood stone pillars with a foot of two meters, and then there was an arched top frame woven with metal strips, and the door was also woven with metal strips, forming a pattern of flowers and leaves, shields and swords, just like the gate courtyard of the inland aristocratic manor.

"Flashy. Beckett pouted.

Maite said: "Originally, it meant that relying on the forest as a barrier, the large army could not give full play to the numerical advantage, and it was better to repair the armor than to build the wall." ”

The gatekeeper let him go after asking for the intention and checking the nameplate seal.

Entering the interior of the town, the wooden poles of the berm have become street stones, and they are all cut and carved bluestone, beautiful and exquisite, the road surface is gravel, unusually smooth, wet, but there is no water at all, quite a high standard. I don't know that I thought I was in the castle of the great nobles of Netherre's heyday.

With the help of street lights, you can also see the surrounding houses clearly. They are all two-story dwellings with attics in Nesmai, where every inch of land is valuable, and they are built on a large stone base, with the best timber as the backbone beams and pillars, supplemented by blue bricks, mortar, black mud, stone tiles, etc., and it costs more to build such a house than to build a three-family Mannian house.

Matt was amazed and said, "No wonder I am reluctant to leave, there is no such standard of living outside." ”

Beckett said, "What I don't understand is how the people of Nightlight get the resources to build these. You must know that the surrounding area of Nesman can be served by people from all walks of life ten times as many as the people in the city, so that there can be such a splendid splendor. ”

As he spoke, just as he turned the corner of the street, Matt pointed forward and said, "That's it, magic." ”

Beckett looked along Mait's point, and saw that more than 100 meters in front of him, there was a square of about 5,000 square meters, and in the center of the square was a very magnificent magic fountain.

In terms of the size of the square and the scale of the fountain, this fountain is obviously a bit overdone, this is the kind of multi-level fountain that should be configured in a super-large square, placed here, like a small wardrobe stuffed with large luggage, full of oppression.

However, the energy of the water of light surging in the fountain made it natural for those who saw it to ignore these problems, and were completely attracted by the majestic power.

"It's really surprising that in the depths of this dense forest, I actually saw an energy pool with such abundant energy!" Li Yun was also amazed, he felt the purity and grandeur of the energy in the fountain, and gave birth to an indescribable sense of familiarity.

If his memory remains, he will know that this familiarity comes from the knowledge of the power of the eternal water.

The magic of the water of eternity lies not only in the concentration of energy, but also in the concentration of laws. It is like a powerful machine, swallowing the energy around it and transforming it into the power of order.

Some call it the 'blood of the world', and say that when the water of eternity is perfectly absorbed by the whole world, the will of the world will mature, and a Titan god will be born. In other words, the Titan gods originally laid down the Well of Eternity in this Salanob, in fact, to awaken their own kind.

Such a miraculous substance is naturally coveted by many existences, and a drop here will be turned into this powerful energy pool, providing an endless stream of energy. The Magic Fountain is just a decoration that does nothing to help with the transfer of energy.

The moment Li Yun saw this magic fountain, it was already clear that it was the real reason why the people of Night Town would rather rot a little bit than leave here. The people of Nightlight are accustomed to relying on this power, and leaving here, even if they are allowed to become nobles in Mann, they will feel miserable, just as the High Elves disdain for the Human Throne.

Like most towns, Nightlighttown's taverns and inns are one, thorns of thorns, and occupy due east of the Magic Fountain Square.

Pushing open the heavy oak door, the smell of heat, wine, and smoke came to the face, there was no smell of sweat, no noise, there were many people in the tavern, it was full of people like a chartered party, but the atmosphere was not warm, people were very attentive to etiquette, well-dressed, and talked quietly.

Li Yun could feel that since the three of them came in, more and more eyes were focused on the three of them, these eyes were full of curiosity, but they were also full of rejection, no one accosted them, and there were no lame jokes or hateful words and evil deeds, people were like treating the protagonist of the scandal, squinting and whispering.

"Ah, welcome, it's been a long time since a traveler has visited Nighttown. ”

The bartender who spoke was a woman, about forty years old, plump and rich, with burgundy hair, and a dimple on the left side of her face when she laughed, but it did not make people feel kind, but showed a professional fakeness.

"How do you pay the bills, do you receive gold and silver?"

"We're more interested in what's going on out there, how about it? If you're willing to tell everybody, it's free of charge. ”

"Yes, but I have an additional request, we want to know the whereabouts of the Vincennes. ”

The tavern door opened again, and several heavily armed night watchmen walked in with a middle-aged man with a curly beard. The middle-aged man raised his chin and said to Li Yun and the others: "Three, tonight, I'm afraid you will spend it in prison." (To be continued.) )