Chapter 152: Reunion
Don't have a hotel? Wu Ming was stunned, how could it be? We did stay at the town inn last night, and the first floor of the inn was the town tavern, but the proprietress said that after the Piper came, her business had deteriorated a lot, and no one came to visit again
He then briefly explained to the mayor how he had come to town, and how he had been recruited by the innkeeper to live in the inn, and Rog, after listening quietly to what the other party had to say, looked at him with a very strange expression, as far as I knew, at least since I had been in office, there had been no tavern or inn in the town. This town is very closed in the first place, and there are hardly any outsiders here, so how can there be a hotel to entertain guests
As for taverns, although there is no custom or ban on alcohol prohibition in the town, most of the residents do not have the leisure and financial resources to get together for a drink, they spend most of the day on the work of maintaining a self-sufficient life, and the residents of the town are not very rich, even if the town has electricity and communication with the outside world has been strengthened, but there are still many families who do not have access to electricity, so it is impossible to go to a tavern full of all kinds of liquor as you said
Are you sure you're really staying in a hotel? I've been in town for a few days, but I've never seen a place like a hotel in town, and Anna said at the right time.
Feeling the deep doubts clearly revealed in the eyes of Anna and Rogge, and Wu Ming also keenly felt that something was wrong, but in order to further verify it, he still asked: We are sure that we are staying in a hotel, according to what the proprietress said, the first floor is a place where the townspeople usually drink and brag, and there are only four rooms on the second floor, and we just live in one room, as for the address
Wu Ming relied on his impression of the distribution of buildings in the town to tell Rogge the location of the hotel, and also described the appearance and attire of the proprietress in detail. But the mayor of the town frowned even more when he heard where the inn was, and he shook his head very firmly: not only is there no inn, but it should also be a house that has long been abandoned, and after the last woman of the family died of a serious illness more than a hundred years ago, the house has not been inherited, and the house has been empty.
Anna was reminded like this, as if she remembered something: It turned out that it was a house that had been abandoned a long time ago, and when I hid in the town and quietly investigated, I also found some information about the witch more or less, but many townspeople only kept a secret about that house and kept silent, and that house was also related to the witch, right?
Rogge turned his head to look at Anna, he didn't expect this stranger to be so perceptive, and nodded: Yes, that family is related to a witch that once existed in the town, but because of many reasons, including the fact that the town will become what it is today, most people are reluctant to mention the name and deeds of this witch
It is related to a witch story in the town, the residents are reluctant to talk about Wu Ming narrowed his eyes, a thoughtful look appeared on his face, he couldn't help but think of the witch stories that the proprietress said before, a terrible conclusion is taking shape in his heart, I have heard some stories about witches before, but from the perspective of the times, the owner of that house should not be the property left by the original witch
Mom, the boss lady is the witch who made the town suffer the witch's eternal curse?!
There's also a witch hiding in the shadows in the town?!
The girl who longed for the outside world and wanted to escape from the town of Merras did not succeed in escaping hell.
Not long after she fled the town with her clothes, she was caught and brought back by the townspeople who came later, and the cognitive modifications set by Wu Ming before leaving had begun to loosen, and as the townspeople became more and more enthusiastic about the witch trial, and became more and more precarious, there were even several extremely excited townspeople who had broken free from the ideological steel seal that Wu Ming had set.
In the days that followed, the town court was formed to interrogate the young girl, and the townspeople made false accusations against her, and in order to make Nina confess that she was a witch, they lynched her so that the young girl felt like she was living in a real hell for the rest of her life.
Finally, after being tortured, Nina was burned at the stake by the agitated townspeople.
The thick smoke choked her with more and more difficulty breathing, and the flames licked her festering wounds and skin from the torture in the cell, the sharp pain and suffocation brought her consciousness to the brink of collapse, and the crackling sound of the flames rang in her ears, but the roar of the townspeople trying to burn the witch seemed to drown out the sound of the flames burning and went straight into her mind.
Just like Nina's dream, in the spreading fire, she vaguely saw a black cat crouching in the flames, staring at her with spiritual eyes, as if witnessing her final end.
But unlike in the dream, when Nina's consciousness was about to break and fall into darkness again, the black cat spoke.
It's time to wake up the dream The black cat blinked lightly with its faint pupils, what has happened is impossible to change, no matter how you dream back to that time, the established facts will not change because of your will, now all the power of the witch has been recovered by you, and the magic power accumulated for hundreds of years is only inherited by you
In an instant, the stake, the blazing fire, the agitated townsfolk burst like shattered mirrors, the crackling of burning wood, and the sound of people shouting for the witch to be judged were also rapidly moving away from Nina's ears.
Everything shattered like a disillusionment, the proprietress who was lying on the tavern bar, falling into a light sleep with her hand on her head, slowly opened her eyes, her eyes burst out of magic lightning because of the surge of excessive magic, and on a table not far in front of her, there was a black cat with a pitch-black body, which was flicking its tail irritably, but when she saw the proprietress Nina wake up, her cat face showed a humane smile and spoke.
Come on, the obstacles are gone, and the strongest witch is born! Nina, with the misfortune you have suffered, with the pain you have suffered, with the hatred and anger that you have accumulated for more than a hundred years, with the blood and tears of countless witches persecuted for hundreds of years, use this huge magic power to change the world!
Undo the witch barrier, you don't need that to protect yourself anymore.
At that moment, the entire town of Melas suddenly shook violently as if it had ushered in an eight-magnitude earthquake, and the earth was as fragile as a piece of paper, and it was easily torn open one by another by an incredible force, and then soon the entire town had some extremely strange changes.
The town's already dilapidated houses are being corroded by something at a rate visible to the naked eye, no, to be precise, it should be like a sudden acceleration of the aging process of the building, compressing the aging of the building that should have taken decades or even centuries into a few minutes, or even seconds.
It's like watching a video at 32 times the speed, or even 64 times the speed.
The most obvious of these are the wooden buildings, all the wooden structures in the town of Melas have collapsed due to corrosion in a matter of seconds, and soon become a pile of rotten wood covered with moss, greenery, and fungi, and finally quickly returned to the bosom of nature. Then there are the concrete and stone houses, which were quickly covered with a lot of greenery, and they were quickly reduced to a pile of rubble in the dusty time of the acceleration.
Not only the buildings, but also the rest of the town continued at this strange rate of time, and the town's already dilapidated concrete roads were rapidly overgrown with moss, vegetation, and finally covered by low shrubs in the same short period of time, and the cultivated fields were equally rapidly abandoned and eventually overgrown with weeds.
In just a few minutes, thanks to this abnormal flow of time, this place has changed from a somewhat dilapidated border town that still has many people living in it to a wild jungle that has been deserted for a long time and looks like no one has set foot in it for a long time.
Perhaps, on the contrary, this may not be the abnormal passage of time, but the time balance phenomenon caused by the fact that the object that has been suspended at a certain point in time has stopped changing for a time to return to normal again.
But in the process of constant change and degradation into a wild jungle, there has always been a building standing firm in more and more vegetation, that is, the inn where Wu Ming lived before, no matter how the vegetation grows, no matter how the building is corroded and damaged, this inn always seems to have not been affected in any way
Not only did there be no trace of damage or corrosion, but even the plants would not come close to the ten meters around it.
It's as if there's some invisible force protecting this place.
A dazzling light suddenly appeared in front of the only building standing in the wild jungle, and as the ball of light broke, the figures of Wu Ming and the four slowly walked out of it.
The eldest brother Nina stood at the door of the hotel and waited for them quietly, she had already changed out of the previous boss's outfit, and put on a complex black dress layered on top of each other, looking mature and graceful, looking at Wu Ming who slowly walked out of the light cluster, she ripped off the headscarf tied to her head, and her long golden chestnut hair spread out behind her back like a waterfall, and her face showed a happy smile like a child receiving candy, you finally found me, but you are too late, Nina, has already recovered the magic accumulated by witches for generations
Big brother, you can't stop Nina anymore
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