Chapter Ninety-Two: The Swamp Labyrinth
The corpse of the fish-man diverted the temple's speculation from the truth, and the fact that all the knights who had returned to the Duchy of Orleans had died gave Mel a slight relief. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
I just asked around and walked in the direction of Osawa.
This swamp has a very unusual name, called the swamp maze, as the name suggests, because the terrain inside is particularly complex, like a maze, you can get in, but it is difficult to get out.
It is said that many unbelieving explorers entered the city, but they were exhausted and could not find the exit, and eventually died in the swamp.
Either decay, or sink into the mud, or become food for some kind of creature in the swamp.
Among these explorers were nobles, including a prince, a prince who was favored by the king, but who was too naughty to be bold.
The maze was carried out with a team of guards, and no one survived.
Presumably, there may have been survivors among the guards, but the prince died in the swamp labyrinth, and they survived, and if the king knew about it, he would not spare them.
Therefore, even if they have to be born, they will go incognito and bury their true identity.
But the death of the prince aroused the wrath of the king, so in a fit of rage, he sent a large army to clean up the swamp labyrinth, cut down trees, and fill in the swamp.
The king's wrath, even in a large swamp, could not be resisted.
After half a year of landfilling, the swamp was flattened, and it was no longer dangerous, and the king also erected a huge monument in the center of the swamp in order to commemorate the prince.
Because it was originally a swamp and had not been cultivated for hundreds of years, the land here was extremely fertile, and there was no trace of poison gas or poisonous insects after landfilling, so it became a good agricultural land.
Many commoners and aristocrats bought or rented land here to establish agricultural areas.
And in the center of the swamp, where the prince's stele is located, Cheng was gradually enclosed into a city, the city was very large, and there was a square in the middle, and the prince's stele stood in the center of the square.
Maier looked at the stone monument in the square, and although he found the story interesting, he was still a little disappointed.
Now that the swamp has become a city and a peaceful place, there will probably be no more cloudy fruits, and I will be a waste of time.
The title party is really hateful!
Mel cursed in his heart, and then got up, and prepared to return in the direction in which he had come, and among the news that Mel had heard, there were two swamps, one was the swamp labyrinth at the moment, and the other was a little farther away.
According to Myer's route, the swamp maze is relatively close, which is why Mel chose to come here, but he didn't expect it to be the way it is.
Since there is no harvest here, it is only necessary to go to another place.
But just then, a piece of news reached Myer's ears.
"Did you hear that a large piece of farmland to the northwest has collapsed, and it seems that the swamp there is showing signs of recovery, and a lot of black water is coming out of the ground. ”
"I've heard that there is a gray bug that suddenly appears in it, which is poisonous, and often bites people, and it is a bowl of swollen bag, and it will not go down in four or five days. ”
"It's not too light, it's said that someone was bitten to death by this bug and his whole body turned black. ”
"Is this a sign that this place is going to be a swamp again, is it possible that the land, and the city, are going to be turned back into a swamp?"
"This is terrible, is our land just gone? This is all my life. ”
"It shouldn't be so fast, it's just a small area to the northwest now, and even if the swamp shows signs of recovery, the nobles will probably fill it in. ”
"After all, there are so many people living here, and the interests of so many people are involved, and it is not easy to give up. ”
Mel stopped, and the resurgence of the swamp seemed to indicate that the swamp was not really destroyed, but only covered by the dirt on the ground.
Underneath the dirt, there must still be a real swamp.
Then, everything that the swamp should have may still exist there, and in this case, the probability of cloudy fruits in the swamp is even greater than that of ordinary swamps.
Mel mounted his pony and headed northwest.
Perhaps the signs of recovery in the swamp are really not so serious, and along the way, Mel did not see many people rushing back to the city from the northwest, which means that the situation in the northwest is still under control.
After a while, Maier came to the village that the group of people had been discussing in the square before.
It seems to be a little more affluent, just like the usual villages, where the land is so fertile that the crops are surprisingly productive and require less fertilizer.
Turning over and dismounting, Mel walked in the direction of a crowd of people.
In the center of the crowd was a middle-aged man who had fallen to the ground, as if he had been bitten by something, and a lot of blood was flowing from the wound, staining a small piece of the ground red.
It seemed that it hurt so badly that the middle-aged man hugged his head and shouted.
At this moment, the wound on the middle-aged man's head suddenly swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, at first it was just a small bulge, and then it became the size of a fist.
At the same time, because the wound is propped up, the blood flow from the wound is faster and more.
An old man who came in a hurry was out of breath, and before he could catch his breath, he took out some green plant grinding from his waist, snapped it, and slapped it on the wound of the middle-aged man.
At this time, the wounds of the middle-aged people gradually have a tendency to shrink and heal, and the blood flow becomes slower.
After a while, the middle-aged man recovered, barely able to stand up, supported by a man who seemed to be the wife of a middle-aged man, and walked slowly in the direction of the cottage in the village.
Myer's gaze fell on the body of a bug that had been left behind.
It is very similar to the appearance of a locust, but it is many times larger than a locust, and although its head has been broken in half at this moment, its strong vitality still allows it to have the ability to shake its wings slightly.
Like, it's about to fly.
Myr suddenly realized something, and retreated into the distance.
At this moment, a hole suddenly appeared on the surface of the ground, and then, a group of black insects swarmed out of the hole, and everywhere they went, there was no grass.
Whether it was the plants or animals in the field, even the wooden handles of the tools, they were gnawed clean by these black insects.