Chapter 80: Doubts
The whole town was dead silent, and although Yenifa could clearly detect with his keen perception that all the townspeople were hiding in the house, this made him even more puzzled: everyone was hiding in the house, so what about daily life?
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In addition, firewood or charcoal is used to make a fire for cooking, and it is necessary to wash clothes and do household chores, which cannot be done if you hide at home with the door closed, and the only end result is starvation.
"Everybody huddles in the house and doesn't go out, which shows that the situation is quite serious, otherwise people wouldn't be huddled in their homes. Yenifa said to Catherine, "Considering that they don't even have the courage to go out to fetch water or chop wood now, you can imagine how dangerous it has been." ”
Catherine's expression was also very solemn, this place gave her a not very good feeling, the cold atmosphere and the strange silence that emanated here all the time made people feel nervous and frightened.
Yenifa cautiously walked into the town, the road was full of fallen leaves and dirt, apparently no one had cleaned it, and the dead branches and leaves fell to the ground, revealing a strong sense of dead silence.
"Is anyone alive?" said Yenifa softly as he knocked on the window of a house.
Soon, a face with a look of high vigilance, and a face full of sadness and fear between his eyebrows, lifted the corner of the curtain and appeared in front of Yenifah.
"Who are you? Get out of here! If you don't want to lose your life, go away! Don't lure the ghosts to me!"
Hearing this, Yenifa frowned slightly, it was obvious that the townspeople here did not know what Yenifa's robe meant, nor did they know what the clan crest pinned to his chest symbolized, otherwise he would not have spoken like this.
But Catherine couldn't hold her breath, as a member of the wizarding family, her status was relatively high even in the wizarding community, when was it said by a mortal in such a tone?At that time, she frowned angrily, and shouted at the man, "You pariah! Who allowed you to speak to a noble wizard in such a tone?!"
Yenifa was startled by Catherine's sudden shouting, he saw that Catherine was a delicate and lovely appearance all the way, but he didn't expect her voice to be powerful and imposing, as soon as she opened her mouth, she was a "pariah", looking at the man in the window with anger and contempt and disdain, as if she had been stained with dirt.
This is the general reaction of the wizarding community to ordinary civilians, wizards have always believed in the motto "strength is the standard of equal dialogue", no matter what your identity is, what faction, as long as your strength is enough, you are qualified to be equal to them.
On the contrary, even if you have a prominent background and all kinds of glory on your body, your strength is lower than others, and others will not care about you.
Therefore, weak mortals are almost no different from ants in the eyes of wizards, and when they are in a good mood, they give them some mercy, which is a blessing they have cultivated for several lifetimes, and punish them when they are in a bad mood, and they deserve to punish them when they are in a bad mood - who made you so weak? Weakness is the original sin!
The townsfolk who were scolded by Catherine suddenly showed a look of panic on his face when he heard Catherine claim to be a wizard, and immediately begged for mercy again and again: "Lord Wizard, Lord Wizard! I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean it, I ...... I'm damned! I'm damned!"
"That's enough!" Yenifa interrupted the other party's crying cry of mercy impatiently, "Don't cry with me there, tell me what's going on here?!"
Yenifa's words quickly frightened the man's tears and cries, and the man looked at the street outside in fear, and then said with a look of horror on his face: "This town is haunted! And it kills people without blinking, and can kill many people at once!"
"Don't talk me this nonsense! Tell me what's going on in town. Yenifa interrupted impatiently, he had already known that the events here might be related to spirits, and he didn't have time to listen to these ignorant mortals tell ghost stories.
"Wait, you open the door first, and let us in!" Catherine commanded the man, with a commanding look.
A hint of hesitation flashed on the townman's face, as if he was very afraid of opening the door, but when he saw the two wizards standing in front of him, the fear of wizards still outweighed the fear of ghosts, and soon Yenifa and the others heard a noise behind the door of the house, and then quietly opened a crack.
Yenifa walked over unceremoniously and pushed open the wooden door and entered the house, and Catherine was also condescending at night, as if the empress were inspecting her own subjects, and walked through the house in large numbers.
In the trembling narration of the townspeople, Yenifa finally understood what had happened in the town in the last few days.
Four days ago, that is, three days after the lord of Shining Silver Town, Viscount sent three knights, the Viscount had already decided that the three knights sent had died, so he hurried to inform the wizard stationed in the mining city, but on this day, the scouts sent by the viscount found that the cold air in the silver mine cave had spread from the depths and had reached the middle of the silver mine.
Now the Viscount and the people of the town were worried, and if the latter could continue, sooner or later the cold would spread to the surface, and because of the rumors that the mines were haunted, the silver mines had been suspended, and everyone was anxiously waiting for the Viscount to ask someone to settle the matter.
But the savior did not come as everyone expected, only endless fear and nightmares like death!
Since three days ago, even the guards who were on duty outside the mine to prevent the townspeople from entering by mistake began to die one after another, each of them died in the same way as the miner Lao Locke who died in the first place, one second was fine, the next second suddenly the person stopped talking, as if asleep, as if he was asleep, cold to the touch, and had long lost his life.
Then the scope of this "haunted" phenomenon became larger and larger, and finally the people of Shining Silver Town could stand still inexplicably when they walked down the street, and the person next to them would freeze off a piece of skin when he touched his palm, and the person fell straight down, unable to die again.
Until the day before, the whole town was in danger, except for the people who realized that something was wrong at the beginning and ran out of the town, the rest of the people would turn into extremely cold corpses as soon as they went out, so now the people of the whole town have not dared to go out for a day.
"If you walk down the street, you'll be attacked, but it's okay to hide in the house?" said Yenifa with a raised eyebrow.
This phenomenon is very abnormal, since the other party has the ability to cover the entire town, then it stands to reason that no matter where you are hiding, whether you are outdoors or not, you can't dodge the attack, people want you to die, you still have to die, but in fact this is not the case, the townspeople are safe to hide in the house, which is very interesting.
"Why only attack those who leave the house? Is it to imprison the townsfolk within the confines of Shining Silver?, so it's okay to stay honest, and if you go out and try to leave the town, you'll be killed?" Catherine thought for a moment, and could only think of one possibility.
"Possibly, but what is the purpose of imprisoning the townsfolk in the town?" Yenifa scratched his head, feeling that his brain had never been so insufficient.
In the past, when Yenifa was gnawing at books and overcoming the difficulties of knowledge, he did not feel that his IQ was not as good as it is now, and even if he racked his brains and constantly recalled the habits and methods of various spirits he saw in the books, he could not find a suitable object.
"Forget it! Guess what! Don't guess! It's useless to think about it here now!, let's just take the initiative to find it!" Yenifa scratched his hair a little irritably, "Anyway, there will be a fight after all...... It's better to kill it now, and maybe you can catch it off guard......"
With a wave of his hand, Yenifa decisively decided to solve the problem through the most primitive means, what kind of spirit body, what intelligence collection, what detective decryption, all rolled aside! The master came here to do a task to deal with the family's requirements, not to save the common people, even if the whole town is dead, it is none of my business, I just need to find out the culprit and kill it!
Thinking of this, Yenifa suddenly stopped feeling confused and no longer felt a headache, I don't care what kind of monster you are, I don't care what weird means you use to harm people, I don't care what your purpose is to confine the townspeople to the town, no matter what you want to do, all problems will be solved naturally after killing you!
As for the way to solve the problem? Do you still need to ask? Although violent means are primitive, it is absolutely best to use the most efficient means to solve problems; no matter what problems occur, as long as the root cause of the problem is found out and crushed to death, all problems will not be a problem!
Catherine was stunned when she watched from the sidelines, with her current level of thought, it was not enough to understand Yenif's simple and crude thought circuit, she only felt that Yenif's thinking was curious and difficult to understand, but it felt like it was very reasonable.
"Where is that silver mine?" asked Yenifa angrily at the townsman, although he didn't show any vicious expression, but his tone was as cold as ten thousand years of ice, and he had the momentum of not recognizing who killed whom.
"Witch witch, wizard master, say everything, say anything, please let me live...... I'm a glass-burning worker......" The townsman was so frightened by Yenifa that he peed his pants on the spot, and a lingering smell of urine filled the room.
"Oh~~ Stop talking nonsense, say it quickly!" Catherine's expression instantly became ugly, she covered her nose in disgust, kept waving her hand to try to disperse the smell, and urged in an unkind tone.