Levi led the dog down the steep slope of the basin and walked towards the strange village.

He looked at it carefully, and there was no protection such as enchantment, let alone any city walls or temples and shrines, and the village here was like a peach blossom paradise isolated from the world.

This is a basin guarded by several mountains, but he has encountered a lot of strange pursuits and interceptions all the way here with his dogs, and even has a terrifying weirdness the size of a mountain, which can swallow several kilometers with his mouth open, and that weirdness can even destroy a big city like Kyoto at any time.

With that size, even the Yaki Orochi, which is more than fifty meters long, looks like an earthworm in front of it.

But it is only isolated for hundreds of miles, but it is a paradise.

"Doumaru, do you have a rough estimate of where we're here?" Levi asked.

"I think about it, we walked about 400 miles across Mt. Hiei and came across that mountain-like monster, and then we ran desperately for more than two hours, and now we should be more than 700 miles from Kyoto." The dog reckoned.

Levi also calculated in his heart that if the dog's estimate was about the same, they should be nearly 300 kilometers away from Kyoto now, which means that they were already close to the extreme north of Reedwon Island, and it was estimated that they would see the sea and Hokkaido in less than 200 kilometers.

"We're here for a moment today, you haven't eaten all day." Levi touched the dog's head.

Originally, he was going to take a break on the road, but when he was just baking potatoes, he encountered something like that, which left Levi and the dog basically without food and water for the whole day.

He himself is not a big problem, since the ascension of psionic energy, his body is able to store energy into "pseudoneutrons", and when needed, he will decompose pseudoneutrons into protons and electrons to produce energy beyond nuclear transformation.

But the dog can't stand it, and the riding skill is just squeezing the energy in his body, if he doesn't eat today, Levi is afraid that it will die suddenly, otherwise it would be a pity that such a good 996 mount will be gone.

In the distant villages, there are still many house lights.

At the top of the mountain, Levi saw the people, and when he walked in, he found that he suddenly found that there were reclaimed fields everywhere, and ravines connected to a small lake in the distance, and the fields were all freshly harvested flax or barley.

Even further on, Levi saw man-made bamboo groves, mulberry trees, and a temple.

It is not a Shinto shrine or a Buddhist temple, but a mountain god that the indigenous people believe in, and a shed is built out of wood, and there are primitive gods made of wood and earth.

If it had been twenty years ago, before the outbreak of weirdness, Levi might have felt that such an isolated village would have felt relatively normal, but now that even the five major capitals were facing a strange situation, Levi didn't think that such a small village could survive here.

Gradually, Levi walked into the village.

As he expected, there were people from house to house, and even if he looked closely, he could hear the sound inside, and after walking for a while, he saw a wooden house with the door open.

The room was stained with carbon fire, and there were two figures who didn't seem to be sleeping.

"Knock knock." Levi knocked on the door and said, "Excuse me, we are travelers from the south, please stay for one night." ”

"Wang!" The dog atmosphere group barked, at least with a dog, it didn't look like a bad person.

The room fell silent for a moment, and not long after, the wooden door was slowly opened, and a young man who looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old slowly looked at Levi and the bean pills beside him, as if he was very surprised.

The boy's face was very dark, and it was as if he had become invisible in the night.

"We're not bad guys, we're travelers who are going to Ezo, and we're passing through here for a while." Levi's hand went deep into his sleeve, in fact, he slowly took out a little bit of broken silver from the other space, he took a few steps back, and let the dog bite the broken silver and put it at the door.

"You're from outside the mountain?" The boy seemed shocked.

"Yes, yes, we're passing through here." Levi continued.

"Come on in, it's cold outside." The boy opened the door, not seeming to be too wary at all.

Levi and Doumaru glanced at each other, not knowing what they were thinking, and a man and a dog walked in like this.

"Amihu, there's a guest here!" The boy shouted into the house.

At this time, Levi also led the dog into the house slowly, it was very simple and simple, ready to be like an ordinary farmer's situation, the only thing that was a little different was that the house was full of wood for half of the house.

Then Levi saw a little girl in linen clothes who still looked very cute and walked out, about twelve or thirteen years old, she took out a few bamboo cups, and then poured hot water from the charcoal fire on the bamboo cups.

"Guest, please use it slowly, the hospitality is not good." The little girl named Amihu also bowed decently.

Then the swarthy boy took out some food from the house, namely barley and some wild vegetables, and seemed to be preparing to cook for Levi.

"No, no, no, we actually have very convenient food." Levi took out a few potatoes from his sleeve and slowly placed them next to the charcoal fire.

"Ah, do you need blankets for the guests, you gave too much just now, or take all the wood from the house." The swarthy boy embarrassedly took out the broken silver that Levi had given him.

This small piece of broken silver is enough for their family to live for a long time.

Levi: "......"

He almost thought that his alien space had been exposed, and this half of the house had less than one or two tons of firewood, how could he take it away?

And looking at the swarthy boy, he really seemed to think that Levi gave too much broken silver.

"Sorry, I haven't introduced myself yet, my name is Levi, I'm a lost traveler, and this is my buddy Doumaru next to me." Levi touched the head of the Shiba Inu.

"Wang!" Doumaru shouted cooperatively.

"Ah, my name is Chai Shirou, this is my sister Amihu, our family is a firewood maker here, and there is nothing to entertain guests." The boy, Chai Shiro, touched his head embarrassedly.

And Amihu also bowed slightly.

Levi looked at the little girl, she was white and clean, and it was not an exaggeration to say that she was the eldest lady of the aristocratic family after changing her linen clothes, and this Chai Shilang was dark and had traces of wind and frost on her skin.

He was able to analyze some information, and it seemed that they were brother and sister who depended on each other as the boy said, and could tell that the boy loved his sister very much.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I bothered you two late at night, but we were really lost, and we were going to go to the north, but the heavy snow blocked us, and there were mountains everywhere, so I don't know how to break here, ask, what is the name of your village?" Levi asked tentatively.

"Name, there doesn't seem to be a name here, we've always been called by the village." Chai Shilang said, as if he had thought of something, "By the way, I seem to have heard the village chief's grandfather say the name of our place, it seems to be called ...... Ideal Township! ”

The water in the bamboo cup in Levi's hand spilled out in an instant, and the dog's tail, which was originally wagging like a propeller, also stopped at this time, with a ghostly expression.

"Ideal Township? It's a strange name, and I think it's normal if it's called Ideal Village or Fantasy Village. Levi quickly recovered, and patted the dog's head and gave Douwan a look.

And Doumaru also understood what Levi meant, he disguised himself as a self-cooked Shiba Inu and ran to Amihu's side, rubbed it affectionately, and passed the test cutely.

"What's wrong with the dog hook?" The little girl also touched the dog's head, and Douwan showed an expression of enjoyment.

"It's a very affectionate Shiba Inu, so you can take it with you." Levi said with a smile.

"Really?" Amihu seemed to have a light in his eyes, and Doumaru also collapsed on the ground at this time, and began to show his belly and sell cuteness.

"Yes." After Levi finished speaking, he glanced at Doumaru again, and Doumaru also blinked slightly, as if to say that this little girl would leave it to it.

The little girl walked into the inner hut with the dog, and at this time only Levi and Chai Shilang were left in the hall.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sister, she prefers small animals."

"It's okay, Douwan also likes to play with children, by the way, I just said that this is called Ideal Township? Does it mean that your village is called Ideal Township? Pinch continued to ask.

He asked the dog to break up the little girl so that the two parties could get information separately, and then they would meet together to summarize it.

"It should be, but we haven't had outsiders here for a long time, and the last time a foreigner came in was a few years ago." "Guest, where are you from?" ”

"We are from God." Levi lied for the time being.

"Huh? Shendu ......" Shiba Shirou scratched his head, as if he didn't know where Shendu was and what it was.

"By the way, how long have you lived here?" Levi asked.

"Our ancestors have been here for generations, and I have heard the old people say that during the Great Snake Rebellion, our ancestors fled to this desperate situation and never went out again, and we have lived here for generations." Chai Shilang looked at the potatoes that Levi had placed on the edge of the charcoal fire, and the aroma of the potatoes being roasted was already emanating at this time.

He couldn't help but swallow.

"Serpent's Rebellion?"

It was still 400 years ago during the Izumo Kingdom, and it couldn't have been possible that the demon of the organization called "Eternal Isolation of the Ideal Village" was the demon who saw the Great Snake cut down and then ran to this side in that era.

It's not impossible.

Levi then continued to ask, "Are you safe here?" Haven't you encountered any demons and weirdness? ”

"Weird? I don't know what weirdness is, so be it, guest, the old village chief is the wisest man we have here, he probably knows something else, and I'll take you over to meet him tomorrow. Shiba continued,

"As for the demons you are talking about, do you want to talk about youkai as a guest? There are occasional haunting monsters in the village, but they will be driven away, and I will run away from the rat demons who steal the crops. ”

This made Levi's face even more odd.

This boy doesn't have any spiritual power, and his physique can only be said to be above average, what can he do with his strength to drive away demons?

Especially in this era, the weak demons have long since died, and those who survive are either particularly strong or particularly reluctant, how can he, an ordinary person, really drive away the demons?

"Alright then, I'll stop for the night today, and I'll ask your village chief tomorrow." Levi smiled and drank the hot water from the bamboo cup in his hand.

By this time, the potatoes were almost ripe, and he opened a piece of the potato and ate it.

Then Levi saw that the fourteen or fifteen-year-old child on the other side also swallowed his saliva, without him, the fragrance of potatoes after baking is too strong, several people in the potato family are like this, especially sweet potatoes, the taste that naturally exudes after baking is a lore for people in this era.

"You can taste it too." Levi handed him a piece of baked potato.

"Thank you, guest." Chai Shirou was also polite and took the potato.

Levi casually asked, "What about your parents?" ”

"Ah, my parents went with the mountain god to defend against foreign enemies two years ago, by the way, I remembered, the strange monsters you said, could it be that the mountain gods resisted all these monsters outside the mountain." Chai Shilang slammed his hand with a look of sudden realization.

"Mountain gods?" Levi wondered.

"Yes, yes, our ideal township is the land blessed by the mountain gods, and anyone after the age of 30 will go to the mountains to defend against foreign enemies with the mountain gods, but those people have not returned, I'm afraid it's really dangerous outside, the mountain gods and their parents have been desperately maintaining our peace." Shiba Shiro said.

The more Levi listened, the more strange he felt, and he stopped talking.

"That's right, guest, you're coming from outside, isn't it the kind that is very dangerous outside, and it is said that you may be eaten by monsters at any time?" Chai Shilang asked a little scared.

Levi nodded.

"Ah, that's really thanks to the blessing of the mountain god, so that we in the ideal township can live smoothly and peacefully, and there will be no monsters to come out to trouble." The boy gestured with a strange prayer gesture in his hand, as if it was a prayer from their local specialty.

"Isn't there anyone in your village who can be over 30 years old?" Levi's brow furrowed, he always felt that something was wrong, and he had an extremely terrible conjecture.

"No, it's like the village chief's grandfather should be in his sixties, he is very good, he took care of us for a period of time when my parents went to defend against the enemy, if there is anything else you want to ask, then go and ask the village chief and grandfather tomorrow." Chai Shilang said.

Levi nodded, and no longer entangled, and then it didn't take long for the little girl to lead the dog and come out, the dog ate more than ten potatoes in a row, and it was really tired today.

After resting and eating and drinking, Chai Shilang took Levi to the back room, where he rested for the night today.

When the door was closed, Dou Maru doggy watched them leave through the crack in the door, and then came to Levi's side and said, "Boss, the situation is not right, I found that there is a big problem in this village." ”

(End of chapter)