Dawn......

The morning light shone on Luo Xue's face through the broken windows. Luo Xue opened her eyes, and her eyes were bloodshot.

He couldn't sleep all night, and every time he closed his eyes, he would think of all the sad memories in that space.

Seeing that the sky was already bright, Luo Xue opened the door. The village was still empty as when Luo Xue came. Only the pool of blood on the ground at Luo Xue's feet recounted the tragic situation at that time.

The villagers go out early and return late every day, and even their children have to go out to work under the coercion of several robbers.

This kind of continuous squeezing of labor, even Luo Xue knows that it cannot last long.

But at that time, they were told that they had been doing this for five years.

Luo Xue squatted down, touched the dried blood under her feet, and muttered, "What are you for?"

......

The old village chief, who was old and frail, sat at the door of the hut early in the morning, quietly in the direction in which the villagers had left, and was already a little numb. He saw Luo Xue squatting down and looking at a pool of blood, and knew that Luo Xue heard what happened last night, so he said to Luo Xue: "I'm really sorry last night." ”

"Why don't you resist?" Luo Xue shook her head when she heard the old village chief's words, then raised her head and asked.

He only said this sentence, but when this sentence reached the ears of the old village chief, his voice was a little choked.

"Because we are no match for them at all......" The old village chief remembered the sad past and said to Luo Xue, "There used to be a great magician in our village. It is the pride of the whole village. ”

The village chief said: "When these robbers came, he was the first to rise up and resist, but in the blink of an eye, he was killed by the robbers. "This group of robbers. They are all deserters from the war spirit of the secret France!" The village chief hammered his thigh in anger, only hating himself for not stopping the great magician in the first place.

The hammer hurt the village chief's decaying body again, causing him to cough violently.

The secret French are known for their powerful magic, and the soldiers they train naturally have a deep understanding of magic. In secret France, the conflict between mages and warriors was very acute, and there were many civil strife over power.

The mage is strong, but it is very fragile, and the warrior is physically strong. However, it does not have the mage's ability to kill large areas.

In the end, it was the powerful magicians who took the lead. And this group of robbers is the deserters of that civil strife.

They found a small vein near the village of Sara and found a magic crystal of extremely high purity.

Magic Crystal. It is a magical material that is in great demand in the secret France, and it forms in the depths of the earth. As the earth's crust moved, it gradually surfaced and was discovered by a mage with a heart.

Most of these magic crystals contain high-purity earth elements. There are also a handful of magic crystals that contain other elements. They are an excellent material to use to craft magical appendages. At the same time, the price is very expensive. A medium-sized magic crystal can be sold for fifty silver coins.

Luo Xue listened to the village chief's narration and guessed the cause of the whole thing. He turned his head to look at the entrance of Sara Village and said, "So the deserters, no, the bandits, sent you as slaves to the mines to dig for magic crystals?"

The village chief waved his rough old hand and said, "No! their tone was kind in the first year, but it has only become what it is now. ”

"You're an adventurer though. But you don't need to worry about this kind of thing, after all, we don't have any money......" The village chief's voice was low. He then said: "A few years ago, we spent all our money to hire two veteran mercenaries who helped us expel this group of bandits. But after they left, the robbers returned here again. In retaliation for our rebellion, they also ...... our people."

The village chief said that there was no continuation here, but Luo Xue also knew what was going on. Luo Xue looked at Sara Village, which used to be a large village of hundreds of people, but now there are many empty houses.

"There is still a little bit of time to reach an agreement with them. Then we will be able to be liberated. The village chief coughed under his breath, his tone filled with hope.

The village chief's palms are covered with calluses, which are the marks left by the use of the mine hoe for a long time. Luo Xue looked at the village chief who explained, and was silent and did not respond.

At this moment, Luo Xue knew the belief that supported them to live, and it was this visible hope that allowed them to endure the pain of the wasted people and work hard for this group of robbers.

"So, please don't bother us. The village chief said to Luo Xue.

No matter how stupid she is, Luo Xue knows what the village chief means. He lowered his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness...... I didn't have that intention. ”

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"Adventurer, I look forward to seeing you one day later. The village chief's voice came from behind.

"Yes. Luo Xue replied and stepped out of Sara Village.

He walked silently along the path that his three children had helped him to, and this was the way to Empty Mirror City.

In front of me is the place where Luo Xue is unconscious. Luo Xue looked at the nearby land that was covered with hundreds of ravines, and there were no weeds.

Further on, there is the road to Empty Mirror City that the village chief said. Luo Xue's clothes were in tatters, and she was walking on the road. He found a bulging hill on the edge of the path. There is a hole more than three people high under the mountain bag. Outside the cave was sprinkled with some crystal dust.

There was no one around the entrance of the cave, but when Luo Xue walked in, he could hear the clanging of pickaxes digging in the extreme depths of the cave.

Luo Xue squatted down and looked at the crystal powder. He slowly closed his eyes and entered meditation. He meditated in the sea and felt that the powder contained a large amount of magical elements.

"This is a fragment of a magic crystal. Luo Xue's fingers pinched some powder and confirmed her conjecture.

Seeing this, Luo Xue raised her head and found dozens of bulging hills in the distance. Each of these buns has a cave at the entrance of the most central cave, and a middle-aged man is leaning against the edge of the cave and taking a nap. He had a leather whip around his waist and was the overseer of the veins.

This is the vein that the robbers found, Luo Xue saw the man on the edge of the cave clearly, and saw at a glance that his battle strength was above his own.

Mining veins is extremely difficult, and sometimes a person can't produce a single magic crystal for a day. In the hand of the overseer, he holds a notebook and records the work of everyone. If someone really can't pick up a magic crystal, they will definitely be punished severely.

Just as Luo Xue returned to the main road, a yellow-faced and thin-skinned child came out of the first mine. He held a glittering magic crystal and took a look at Luo Xue.

This child was one of the children who helped Luo Xue to Sara Village.

"You!" he was overjoyed when he saw Luo Xue, but immediately covered his mouth, afraid of being heard by the overseer in the center.

He looked back at the overseer with fear.

The Overseer heard the noise, he just scratched his head, muttered a few words and changed positions, and fell back asleep.

The child immediately lowered his voice, pulled Luo Xue to a dead corner, and said to him, "Big brother, why are you here?"

"I'm heading to Empty Mirror City. Luo Xue looked at his face full of black charcoal, stretched out her weak right hand, and wiped the black charcoal off his face. (To be continued.) )