Spring is bright, and the midday sun carries a soft warmth. But the scene in front of him made Du Lu's heart feel a chill.

He had seen smoke rising before and thought it was human.

I drove a gondola over to see that it was indeed crowded. At the source of the smoke was a small village on the outskirts of the forest, but there were no living people in the village at this time.

More than a dozen houses had been burned by the flames at this time. The fire was gone, and only smoke remained.

As for the villagers.

Duru looked at the mortal corpses hanging on the wooden stakes in every house, and his eyes flashed with shock and anger.

The man's corpse, with all his limbs cut off, was cut into a stick and stuck on a stake. The women were unclothed, disemboweled, and piled up at will. What made Duru feel most chilling was that the corpses of children were also everywhere, both men and women, and their clothes were all lying down, and they were covered in dirt.

There was not a single living person, all corpses with great resentment.

Some people's eyes weren't even closed, and the look of resentment and curse had not gone away before their pupils dilated. Let Duru see it, and his heart is creepy.

He'd seen dead people, whether it was the corpse of a sea beast gnawing at a head, or a soldier on the battlefield who had been broken into pieces, and even a ghoul in captivity with a wizard in Baibeihai City.

But there was no time when he felt so angry inside.

He crouched in front of a house that had been burned to a charcoal frame, and in front of him was the body of a boy that smelled fishy. His eyes were not closed, he looked at the sky blankly, his pale cheeks were covered with the ashes of the burning house, but from the corner of his eye to the pinna, there was a white line.

Durrous could even imagine the picture of the boy weeping silently before he died, his tears running across the corners of his eyes and falling on his ears, leaving this faint white line.

Duru gasped and reached out to touch the boy's eyes.

"Sleep, in another world, you will be happy. Duru muttered softly, and the boy's eyes closed as he stroked the palm of his hand.

"The worst thing in the world is the human heart. "Ingres stood behind Durrous and sighed softly, "Man is in a certain sense, a beast, thinking that he knows his own self and is above the beast, but sometimes he does things that are more frantic than those who follow primitive instincts." ”

There was anger in Duru's eyes: "Lord Pat, do you know who did it?"

"I don't know, the fire wiped out all traces. ”

Duru was silent for a moment, "My lord, I think it's okay to bury them?" ”

"They're dead. "Ingres would like to go on to say that when a person dies, he has no soul, no natural aura, and the corpse is a useless skin. Moreover, they have nothing to do with you.

But he didn't say anything unfinished, just nodded and let Delu do it.

He can guide Duru on how to face the winter of the wizarding world, but Duru doesn't want to interfere too much in his own camp of good and evil, and how to deal with people.

Perhaps, in the future, Druw will become a dark wizard or a white wizard, and when he looks back on this experience, will he be disgusted or embarrassed, or will he laugh at himself for being stupid at the time?

Ingres stood silently, not interfering with Duru's movements.

He was willing to let Durroux spend his time doing this, in fact, because he was a little homesick. Before he returned to the Old Continent, he wanted to fly back immediately. But the closer he got to his hometown, it made him a little timid.

The village is small and there are not many people.

Ingres threw a hand-smelted hoe to Duru, and it took him half a day to dig a big hole.

By the time Duru covered the earth, it was nearly dusk.

Duru held a handful of white flowers in his hand, placed them in front of the pit, and stood silently for a long time, until the sunset dyed his eyes pale red, and the evening breeze rolled up the petals, and he walked up to Ingres and apologized in a low voice.

"It's a waste of adult time, it's because I'm too willful. ”

"Wayward or not, when you really set foot in the wizarding world, judge for yourself. Angel turned around first and took out the gondola: "Let's go, before the night falls, find the crowd and ask for the current location." ”

After returning to the gondola, Duru was obviously in a lower mood than before, and after a long silence, he suddenly asked, "My lord, will a wizard do such a slaughter of a village?"

"Yes. "And more ruthlessly than you think.

Angels' answer made a trace of sadness flash in Durrou's eyes.

"Wizards are also human beings, and the root of human inferiority, no matter what class they are in, will have corresponding manifestations. It's just a whitewash, or an explicit distinction. Ingres paused: "However, because the class gap is too big." To mortals, sorcerers are like clouds. Therefore, if the mortal does not provoke the wizard, the wizard will not deliberately deal with the mortal, this is the default rule of the wizarding world. After all, the backbone of wizards has to be born from mortals. ”

"On the contrary, there is no burden among mortals, and they are keen on internal struggles. ”

The conversation ended here, with Duru continuing his journey to the interior of the continent with the gondola in charge, while Ingres leaned against the side of the ship, looking at the distant mountains and forests red by the sunset, with nostalgia in his eyes.

Angel had planned to find people before nightfall. But unfortunately, when the stars rose in the night, they found no trace of the living.

"It looks like we're on the wrong track. Ingres yawned: the hamlet was not supposed to be a relict village, there must be a town nearby, so they chose to follow the road outside the village.

However, the last road to the small village is the mountain forest, and there is no fixed path in the mountain forest, so they chose a direction at random, but they did not expect to fly nearly a thousand miles and see no traces of people.

"Shall we go back then? Duru asked, in order to find the traces of people, they flew very low and slow, so it took a long time to fly such a short distance.

"You can do it yourself. ”

After thinking about it, Duru decided to go back and choose a new direction to the mountain forest before.

But just as he turned around, an orange-red light suddenly appeared in the dark forest in the distance at night.

"Firelight, is there still anyone in the forest at night?" Duru suddenly remembered something: "Could it be the forest keeper?"

Thinking of this, Duru immediately flew to the firelight in a gondola.

When the flying boat fell, it was discovered that it was not a so-called forest keeper, but just a girl wrapped in a layer of animal skin, trembling in front of the campfire.

Their landing made the girl's eyes full of fear and a hint of curiosity.

She had never seen a ship that could fly in the sky, and it was so beautiful that it made her wonder who they were, even when she was terrified.

Duru was the first to jump out of the boat, jumped into the tree, slid down the trunk, and landed in front of the maiden.

"Don't be afraid, we're just ......" Duru thought for a long time, and finally had a flash of inspiration: "Traveler, we are traveling travelers." It won't hurt you, I just want to ask for directions. ”

Durroux's words did not resonate with the girl. She still looked at Duru vigilantly, while holding the package in her arms in one hand and brandishing a dagger in the other.

"Okay, I'm not going to go there, I'll just ask here, okay?" Duru sighed, "Where is this? How far is it from the nearest town, and in which direction should I go?"

Du Lu's question made the girl pause for a moment before she slowly spoke: "I don't believe you, you go away immediately! If you want to find people, go over there......"

The girl pointed to the southeast.

"Is that the town in that direction, and what is the name of the country we are in today?"

The girl didn't answer anymore, just hugged the package and glared at Duru fiercely.

Durrous didn't know what to do, did he have to deal with a woman? When he was at a loss, Ingres's voice came: "Durrou, come up." ”

Duru was stunned, climbed up the treetops and jumped onto the gondola.

At this time, Ingres looked at the girl below, and the girl was not to be outdone and looked at Angel.

Angel chuckled softly, dropped something black from the bracelet, and landed straight at her.

The girl was startled, thinking that the other party was plotting against him. She was about to run away, but she found herself suddenly restrained by a strange force, and the black whirring thing was about to smash straight into her face.

She screamed in fright.

But after a while, she noticed that nothing had fallen on top of her head. She stole a look, only to see a white velvet fur floating in the air, and then slowly wrapped around her body.

The warmth enveloped her instantly.

At the same time, her body was able to move. She looked up to find the flying boat in the sky, but the flying boat was now gone.

On the other side, gondola.

Du Lu said curiously: "Why did the adults suddenly care about that girl?"

"As a man, shouldn't you be gentlemanly when you see a shivering lady?" said Ingres, raising an eyebrow.

"Uh...... I just think the adults are acting a little out of line?, is it true that the adults like this one?" Duru muttered in a low voice.

Ingres said angrily: "Don't you see that the girl is pregnant with a child in her belly? In this deep mountain and old forest, and it is so cold, this is the only thing I can help. ”

"Pregnant with a child?" Durle was stunned for a moment, he recalled the previous scene, and the other party had indeed been holding his stomach. At that time, her belly was bulging, and he thought it was a package, but it turned out to be a pregnant woman!

Thinking about it this way, her cautious behavior just now also makes sense. After all, it's a pregnant woman, and it's normal to be reluctant to be approached.

"But it's a little strange why would a pregnant woman be here alone at this point?" Durroux wondered.

In fact, the strange thing is not only what Durrou said, Ingres can hear the accent of the girl just now, which is a very orthodox Goldfinch aristocratic pronunciation. Judging from the delicacy of her skin, as well as the piercings in her ears, it is highly likely that the girl was born into a nobleman.

It is also rare for a noble girl to fall so far.

However, Ingres has no intention of exploring.

While Durrou was still muttering strange things, Ingres whispered, "Just look to the southeast she is referring to." ”

Angel hadn't forgotten the hatred and anger that flashed in her eyes when she showed the way.

Ingres reckoned that the young girl was using them as gunmen, and that there were her enemies in the southeast, or those who were pursuing her. However, he didn't care, he just asked for directions anyway.