Chapter 204: A Village Full of Clans
"What chaotic psionic fluctuations!" Leo barely needed to use the psychic net, just close to the edge of the village, he could feel very strong psionic fluctuations coming from the village, but these psionic fluctuations were extremely chaotic, as if hundreds of psionic energy of different frequencies were mixed together.
According to Leo's thoughts, it was obvious that there was a big problem in this village, and all he had to do now was to leave this war zone as soon as possible and go to the Kingdom of Inge, which should not be too troublesome, but his curiosity made him wonder what caused such chaotic psionic fluctuations.
Leo looked at the darkening sky and decided to stay in the village for the night and wait until tomorrow to continue his journey, both to satisfy his curiosity and to avoid martial law by the Francoian army at night.
Thinking of this, Leo walked towards the village in front of him.
This village is the villa-type farmhouse common in Miria, which may have been used by a nobleman for vacation, and has gradually developed into a village, the most obvious feature of which is that the streets and houses are built around the largest and most luxurious villa estates in the middle.
The streets of the village were quiet, there was not a single pedestrian, the inhabitants of the village were hiding in their rooms, and Leo could feel strange eyes projected from the houses from time to time, these eyes were very complicated, and Leo could feel sympathy, pity, happiness, indifference, and so on.
This feeling is not a vague feeling like an imaginary feeling, but a real feeling of the emotions contained in each gaze, which is like having a gaze emotion discriminator on him, and he can clearly distinguish any kind of gaze that falls on him.
Through this wonderful sense of perception, which may have originated from the bloodline as well as from other powers, Leo discovers that although the emotions contained in these gazes are different, all gazes, when withdrawn, reveal the same emotion, which is schadenfreude.
Leo ignored these glances and walked straight to the inn in the village, which was not only open, but also had two rows of street lights in front of the house, making it the most conspicuous place in the village.
The hotel was not empty at the moment, and contrary to the desertion of the village, the hotel could be said to be overcrowded, because a group of patrol soldiers from the French Empire seemed to be preparing to rest in this hotel tonight, and a team of nearly thirty people filled the inn, which was not very large.
Leo who came in from the outside quickly caught the attention of the officers of the team, after all, a tall, muscular man was dressed in very indecent clothes, and two exaggerated pistols were placed in the holster at his waist, and it was difficult to get such an eye-catching outfit unnoticed.
However, the officer did not suspect that Leo was the People's Army of the South, he did not think that any KPA soldier was bold enough to appear alone in front of a well-equipped patrol team, and he also did not think that Leo was the leader of the rebels who were wanted, because writing down the appearance of all the people on the wanted warrants was a compulsory course to become a patrol leader.
But he also doesn't think that Leo is an ordinary person, and in his guess, Leo should be one of those bounty hunters who have been summoned by the Imperial Military Department in the recent past.
Because the main army attacking Miria City was too powerful, it almost didn't encounter too many obstacles to capture Miria City, but it was precisely because the attack of the main army was too smooth sailing that the other auxiliary legions did not complete the expected encirclement.
Therefore, after the fall of Miria City, all the rebels in Miria City, whom the Emperor considered necessary to be caught, escaped from the loophole, and not a single worthy rebel leader was caught.
Fortunately, the auxiliary Seventh Army blocked the passage from the Bidia Mountains to Lanxi in time, and laid a defensive line on the north side of the mountain to prevent others from escaping through the mountains to the south, so the rebels were still hiding in the forests on the outskirts of Miria City.
In order to fulfill the Emperor's arrest order, the military department not only sent the most elite special forces, but also recruited a large number of bounty hunters from the black market to capture those who escaped from the party.
The patrol officer had seen some of the bounty hunters hired by the black market at the crusading force headquarters in Miria City, all of them dressed in strange costumes and chattering spirits, and it was easy to distinguish them from ordinary people. Although Leo was dressed as a piece of clothing that didn't fit well, he was able to walk down the street with such a strange look and no idea what the people around him were looking at, just like the bounty hunters he had seen.
Leo didn't know that he was being treated as a bounty hunter by the patrol officers because of this inappropriate outfit, he just sensed that the soldiers of the Fran Empire around him had no intention of making a move, and Leo was also happy to see this, and dispersed the psionic energy that was going to be used to create air hammer sorcery.
"Is there a room left?" asked Leo as he walked over to the counter and turned to the innkeeper sitting inside.
The innkeeper didn't answer, but just turned his head and glanced at the Imperial soldiers, giving Leo the answer, almost explicitly.
Leo added, "I just need a place to rest, and the stables do." ”
The innkeeper frowned when he heard this, and then said, "Seven bias a night, including one dinner, not breakfast," and as he spoke, he looked at the patrol soldiers again, as if he was deliberately expressing his position, and said a little loudly: "As long as the coins minted by the empire, the coins of the rebel party will not be accepted." ”
Leo picked out seven Imperial Beas from the coins he had just found on the corpse, handed them to the innkeeper, and led by a servant, to the stable at the back of the inn, and arranged them in the warehouse where the straw was stored.
As the servant was about to leave, Leo stopped him and asked him where there was a shop in the village where he could buy suitable clothes.
The servant looked at Leo coldly and said, "Even if there is a shop, it is already closed today, and I will take you there tomorrow." With that, he walked towards the hall in front of the hotel, muttering to himself on the way, "Tomorrow! You fellows may not be able to see tomorrow yet." ”
The servant's voice was very small, and even ordinary people standing beside him could only hear some humming, but Leo's five senses, which had been enhanced by the changes in his body, could clearly hear what the servant was saying.
Leo didn't think to step forward and grab the servant and ask what mystery came out of the other party's mouth, in fact, when he walked into the hotel and stood in front of the innkeeper, he knew very well that the person he was facing could no longer be regarded as a human being, whether it was the innkeeper or the servant in the store, they should all be family.
Although they had all covered the mutations of their bodies with their clothes, Leo could smell the breath of the ancient gods and clans on their bodies from the smell emanating from their bodies, just as he could judge the thoughts and emotions contained in his gaze before, and this ability to judge the identity of the clan by the smell alone was also something he had just discovered.
And at the same time as judging the family, the name of the ancient god family immediately appeared in his mind, but he couldn't find any information that made him make such a judgment, as if this was a kind of instinctive discernment.
Leo couldn't find the reason for these abilities, let alone how to control them, so he could only temporarily see them as additional abilities obtained by the body's unknown primordial bloodline awakening, and after being able to control the power in the bloodline, he would naturally be able to control these additional abilities.
After putting his physical problems aside for a while, Leo began to think about the problems of this village, which may have become a group of relatives of some ancient god by various circumstances. This kind of thing often happened in the ancient period of Vilun, when the gods appeared, but after the gods disappeared from the world, such things rarely happened, and even if they did, most of them happened in the primeval wastelands and forests of the Moissanite continent, where it is said that there were still some wilderness gods.
On the outskirts of Miria, where this village is located now, is so close to a big city full of industrial atmosphere, according to normal circumstances, it is impossible for this kind of large-scale dependentization of the entire village, so in this matter, either someone is playing ghosts, or some disappeared gods have returned.
No matter what the reason is, the time for these villagers to transform into dependents is probably not very long, because the mutations on these dependents are not obvious, and this incomplete mutation will not only not enhance the strength of these people, but will continue to mutate because it needs to consume a lot of energy in their bodies, making their bodies not as healthy and strong as normal people.
"Looks like we're going to have a good show tonight. Leo was analyzing the clans in the village while looking forward to what would happen in the evening.
From the servant's words to himself just now, it was not difficult for Leo to hear that there would definitely be an attack at night, and the attack was not only against him, but also against the soldiers of the French Empire.
With the combat effectiveness of that group of soldiers, even if these weak villagers attacked suddenly, it would be absolutely impossible to defeat these strong soldiers with weapons, so once there was an attack at night, the person who shot it would definitely be the one behind the mutation of these villagers.
Leo is not interested in why the mastermind behind the scenes wants to create the clans, he is interested in the other party's method of making clans in large quantities.
Thinking about things, Leo rested with his eyes closed as he lay down on a simple bed made of haystacks.
When it was completely dark, the servant had come to the hay storehouse with his dinner, laid the tray on a haystack, and without saying a word, turned away.
Leo opened his eyes and looked at the food on the tray, a smile appeared on his face, sat up, ate it all, and then lay back down and continued to sleep.
In fact, the moment the plate was taken to the warehouse, Leo's sense of smell smelled the smell of the food, and as if the paracerebral system still existed, he instantly analyzed some of the main ingredients in the food, and found some herbs that should not have appeared in these ingredients.
These herbs are not poisons, but some very good herbs, which are ranked first among all the herbs used to help sleep in the Herbal Atlas published by the Faculty of Medicine, and what is even more interesting is that the origin of this herb is not in the continent of Veron, but in the east of Minsk.
Because of this, this herb, which was extremely cheap locally, became extremely expensive here in West France, and even the average nobleman could not use it regularly.
But now this expensive herb has been put into the food of a hotel stayer, and it doesn't take much thought to tell that there is something strange in it, so Leo simply calculates it, eats all the drugged food, and waits for the next thing to happen.
As the time passed, it was completely dark, and the group of soldiers who had rested in the hotel also returned to their rooms one after another.
Although the village was already under the de facto control of the French Empire, the officers of the patrol were still vigilant, and before resting, they set up some guard traps inside and outside their rooms, and arranged the order of their subordinates to avoid any accidents.
Just as the clock was midnight, a thick fog suddenly emerged from the forest, and slowly approached the village, soon enveloping the entire village. The Imperial soldier who had been placed on guard on the roof had seen this scene early on, but he did not shake the alarm bell in his hand, because it was not uncommon for this dense forest fog to spread to the edges, and there was no fuss.
However, when the fog covered the entire village and affected people's vision, the soldier in charge of the guard also felt that something seemed to be wrong, so he prepared to wave the alarm bell to inform his companions in the room below.
But I don't know why, he suddenly felt that his body became extremely heavy, his strength became very small, and he couldn't even lift the bell, let alone shake it, and a strong drowsiness also appeared at this time, dissipating the only remaining waking consciousness in his brain, and instantly made him fall into a deep sleep.
At the same time, in the hay warehouse of the stable, a large amount of thick fog penetrated through the cracks in the walls of the wooden planks that were not tight, and soon filled the entire warehouse.
After another half hour or so, a tall figure appeared silently in the warehouse, and strangely the door of the warehouse was not opened, as if the tall figure had entered with the surrounding fog.
The tall figure slowly walked to Leo's side lying on the haystack, and when he heard Leo's even breathing and slight snoring, he thought that Leo should have fallen asleep, so he stretched out a pair of claw-like hands and grabbed Leo's chest and heart.
However, to the surprise of the tall figure, his hand went directly through Leo's body and stuck directly into the haystack. What surprised him even more was that before he could realize what was happening, he felt a powerful force smash into the back of his head, knocking him out directly.