Say what? The proprietress showed a trace of confusion on her face, and she didn't understand why the other party suddenly reacted so much, the legend of the witch can be traced back to hundreds of years ago, and many old people in the town have listened to the stories of their grandparents about the witch in the town since they were children, and they listened to their grandparents tell them when they were children, and they may have processed and polished it themselves in the retelling, and many witch stories and legends in the town have been passed down by word of mouth and have been passed down to this day.

No, I'm referring to the previous sentence, what's the name of this town? Wu Ming repeatedly confirmed with a look of disbelief, for fear that he had just heard it wrong: Melas Town? Are you sure the town is called Melas?

The proprietress nodded innocently: That's right, is there anything wrong with the name?

Wu Ming didn't reply, his expression became gloomy at a speed visible to the naked eye Melas Town, it is the name of this remote town located somewhere in South Wales, due to its remote location, it is rarely known, and many times the location of this town is not even marked on the map, but in fact he knows that this town exists.

Because of Nina.

He still remembered the little girl with long golden chestnut hair, her eyes shining brightly about her dreams when she grew up, wanting to leave the town with her mother, wanting to see the outside world, wanting to eat the delicious food that her father had told her, and finding her father to reunite the family, but this little girl who should have lived a carefree childhood was abused, abused, abused, and bullied by the townspeople as a witch at a young age.

At that time, in order to deal with the incident caused by the Crimson Queen, Wu Ming only had time to spread a cognitive modification when the townsfolk attacked Nina, and temporarily helped her avoid the abuse of the townspeople before being teleported back to Yandu. But that cognitive modification didn't solve Nina's problem fundamentally, so after solving the incident, he privately searched for the town several times, trying to teleport back through the coordinates recorded by the auxiliary device, but the strange thing is

Not a single teleportation to the town of Melas was successful.

Now it seems that Wu Ming has begun to wonder if he has been unable to find Meras Town before, whether it is because the witch who lives here is secretly deliberately interfering

What's wrong? The old hunter obviously noticed that Wu Ming's face was wrong, and asked with concern: "Brother, have you thought of anything?"

It's nothing on my side Some private matters Wu Ming shook his head, and finally put down the messy thoughts in his heart, looked at the proprietress and smiled apologetically: I'm sorry to interrupt the topic The legend of the witch Please continue, the origin of the legend of the witch can be traced back hundreds of years ago? But aren't these stories and legends passed down by word of mouth? How can we be sure that the date is indeed correct?

Well. In fact, it is a story and a legend, but when the old people in the town tell these stories to the children, they will tell them that these are real things that happened in the town a long time ago, and in order to record these things, the proprietress didn't care, nodded and continued, according to the thinking of the townspeople, the earliest stories are what happened hundreds of years ago, so it can only be considered that it happened hundreds of years ago

At this time, the proprietress rolled her eyes, obviously not interested in this witch legend at all.

Otto was already asleep by this time, yawned heavily, and muttered to the side: How did it sound like before someone told a ghost story, and the storyteller said that it was said to be a real thing

That's what it means. The proprietress unexpectedly glanced at the somewhat drowsy Otto, and seemed to think that his summary was quite incisive, but although there are many stories about witches in the town, many of them are the same kind of routine, the town hides an evil witch, she brings disaster and misfortune to the town, and in order to prevent the tragedy from spreading, the townspeople stand up and overcome a lot of suffering and suspicion, and finally defeat the witch

Although most of them are boring, there are still a few interesting stories in the legend about witches

What's the interesting story? Wu Ming and Alex's eyes lit up, and the two couldn't help but exchange glances: After chatting for so long, the main master finally came, and then the former immediately asked: Tell me.

In fact, not only Wu Ming and Alex cheered up, but Qi Gefei also paid attention silently while eating breakfast

Turning to the story told by the proprietress that even Otto forcibly swallowed back the half-yawned he had halted, and forced himself to wait for her to continue.

Seeing that everyone was so interested, the proprietress smiled: Let's tell the first story first, this is the story about the origin of the witch, and it is also the earliest witch legend recognized in the town.

< a hundred years ago, that is, the era of the witch trials in Europe, the town was far more poor and impoverished than it is now, and the townspeople who lived here had not even been able to establish a foothold in this mountain forest, and had to fight against the wild beasts of the mountains, the harsh natural environment and the rogue robbers hiding in the mountains nearby.

The witch was dying when she fled here, and the kind townspeople, despite their poverty, received her with the utmost hospitality, treated her, and each family contributed a little food and shelter to live in the town. The witch, who was treated gently by the townspeople during the recovery period, thought that if she returned to the outside world, she would be endlessly hunted down and persecuted, so she decided to stay in the town, and use magic and witchcraft to make the townspeople happy, which can be regarded as a reward for saving her.

After making up her mind, the witch used her magic to secretly help the townspeople, using magic to make it easier for them to reclaim their farmland, making crops grow more pleasantly, using witchcraft to disperse wild beasts, so that the attacking robbers could not find the right place in the town, and even brewing some herbs and potions herself to help the town's sick townspeople treat their diseases

The proprietress paused a little when she said this, Wu Ming knew that it was time for the story to come next, and the truth was indeed as he expected, and then he heard the proprietress continue: But miracles and magic are not free, the total amount of happiness and misfortune in this world is always conserved, and it is impossible for anyone to reap happiness without paying, and the witch does cast magic out of a well-intentioned hope to bring happiness to the townspeople, but

But these happiness needs to be paid, and without waiting for her to finish speaking, Wu Ming roughly guessed the direction of the story: So even if the witch is kind enough to cast magic, the opposite effect of magic still brings misfortune to the town?

The proprietress nodded, her eyes flashing with some mixed emotions, some regrets, some feelings, and some sadness: well, happiness created by magic will lead to an even greater unfortunate backlash, and there are gradually unfortunate events in the town that make people feel abnormal, children who are cured by witches with potions will be killed by wild beasts because they run after rabbits into the mountains and forests, and crops that would have been harvested will be destroyed by a fire or drought, and this is the price of happiness with magic in the story.

Later, the people of the town suspected that the witch had brought these disasters, so they arrested the witch and then went to ask the church pastor in the big city outside to identify the witch, and finally the witch who caused the disaster did not make any excuse for her actions, and willingly accepted her fate, and was burned at the stake by the angry and frightened townspeople, and finally burned alive.

And after burning the witch to death, just like the witch's revenge, the rogues and robbers quickly ransacked the town at that time, almost burned the town, and the lucky survivors of the ransack rebuilt the town, but no one thought that the flames did not purify the witch's curse and revenge In the words of the townspeople, the power of the witch has been left behind to this day, and it is causing trouble in the town today.

The proprietress let out a sigh of relief: this is the end of the story about the original witch.

Alex was silent for a long time, and a thousand words finally turned into a sigh: even if you use magic with good intentions to help others, will it still lead to unfortunate stories?

And then there's the second story. The proprietress did not answer the old hunter's feelings. The second story is that many years after the original witch was burned to death, the townspeople who were lucky enough to get a bonfire from the bandit attack have rebuilt the town, and they have survived here, and even the townspeople have raised money to build a small church, but as the first story says, the flames did not purify the witch's soul.

The witch with only her soul left wandered in the mountains and forests, still refusing to sleep. The inhabitants of the town, blessed by faith, will not be again

Killed by the evil spirits driven by magic, and she has also lost her body, and can no longer use magic to bring disaster and misfortune to the townspeople, so she chooses other methods to spread misfortune and despair, and selects townspeople and children who are qualified to become witches, and uses various means to tempt them to deviate from the guidance of faith and accept the power of witches to fall like the devil

Otto frowned, and couldn't help but make a mistake: so they fell, accepted the power of the witch, and became stronger?

Madame:?

Wu Ming glanced at him lightly, a little speechless: nonsense, who is degenerate if there is no benefit

Madame:???

Seeing the sudden change in the style of the topic, the old hunter couldn't help but cough lightly and reminded: This, there are actually many ways to become stronger, so it's better not to fall for the sake of becoming stronger

It doesn't have to be stronger, right, anyway, if the witch wants to persuade people to fall, she has to come up with some benefits, right? For example, if you can use magic, if you can eat meat every day, and if you can't do anything, you have to send a pot of oil, a bag of rice, or something like that, right? Otherwise, in the context of that era, who would risk being judged by heresy to become a witch

What this guy said seems to have some sense

Otto looked at his brows and jumped wildly: It's too much to send oil and rice! What kind of financial products are you selling?

Anyway, that's what it means, you can just understand it.

The proprietress watched the topic slide in a direction that she couldn't control at all, and was completely speechless, and waited quietly for them to finish discussing before continuing, getting back to business, the original witch was just like you said, little brother, using all kinds of temptations to make the townspeople fall and accept the power of the witch to become the new witch

The appearance of these witches is also said to have been the key to the formation of the witch trial and witch hunting tradition in this town

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