Chapter 50: The Strange Town
"Huh?" Lan Yu turned his head to look in the direction the middle-aged man was pointing, and there was nothing behind him except Lan Bing. This temple gave him an extremely strange feeling, he had indeed sensed something just now.
There is something here, but its existence is somewhere between non-existence and existence.
"What's wrong with you?" Lan Bing asked.
Lan Yu frowned and replied to the question: "Something is wrong, it's too weird." The thing that inhabits the town is not the void, nor is it an evil spirit, I can't tell. β
He turned to the middle-aged man and asked, "Please calm down and tell us what is going on in the town, we have the ability to solve all this." β
It's just that the middle-aged man didn't speak, buried his head deep in the shabby cotton wool, and trembled all over. Now it is 100% certain that the mental condition of the middle-aged man is not right.
Besides the void, what else can scare a middle-aged man who has been crawling in society for more than ten years into a mental disorder?
"Let me come." Lan Bing gently squeezed Lan Yu away and stepped forward: "My ability is suitable for dealing with the current situation. β
She looked at the middle-aged man with beautiful blue eyes, and immediately put the latter to a deep sleep. As a result, Lan Bing was able to see everything that had happened in the town from the other party's dreams.
Originally, the middle-aged man was the sacrifice of this temple, a successful person who was the envy of everyone in the town. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and strange things began to happen one after another.
First, waves of crows flew in the townβa sign of ominous birds. Then there are the cubs produced by cats in the town, all of which are black cats. At night, there is always a terrible cry from the livestock of the townspeople, but when you wake up the next day, you can see that the animals are safe and sound.
Even stranger things happened one after another, some say that at dusk and dawn they saw dim, orange-yellow flames rising in the wheat fields, as if they were coming from a lantern that was about to be extinguished. More people start to fall into nightmares, always listless and absent-minded.
So the rumors spread in the town, and all the residents agreed that there was something unclean in the town, and they moved out of the town, thinking that they would be able to get rid of it all, but to no avail. Paranormal events follow the people who move away - strange circles appear in the wheat fields, and nightmares become more and more terrifying.
As a priest of the Temple of the Sun, it is naturally a duty to do all this, and the man knows some spells and is considered the best person in the town to handle it all. On a full moon night, he set out with a group of people.
The memory of that passage was so vague that it was almost unrecognizable. Lan Bing vaguely knew that the wind suddenly blew that night, and the wheat in the fields seemed to come alive and let out a strange whining sound.
Then the man was confronted with unspeakable horror, and when he returned, he became what he is now, and he went crazy all day long.
What happened next is easy to speculate, and after all this happened, the temple naturally fell into ruin as the man lost his mind.
At the foot of the table, Lan Yu removed a pile of miscellaneous items and found a diary with yellowed pages, which recorded what happened afterward. The townspeople turned to magicians from other places, but they still couldn't solve it. More people tried to turn to the Celestial warriors for help, but it was dismissed as nonsense. Panic began to spread through the town, and all the residents who had access to the town left the town to join relatives and friends.
The residents who stayed in the local area had no way, but fortunately, the strange incident was only scary, and no one died. Over time, the residents gradually got used to it, but they never went out at night, foggy, rainy and other unknown times.
Lan Bing walked out at this point, finding the last piece of the puzzle from the notice board across the street from the temple, completing the ins and outs of the town.
After the Void War. The number of supernatural incidents immediately began to increase, and the matter finally caught the attention of his superiors, who were supposed to send an ascended person to investigate the matter.
But the battle on the front line of the Acacia Peninsula is tight, and none of the Ascended can pull away. The Ascended Ones who remained behind were responsible for keeping the empire running, and they had no time to investigate the matter.
Fortunately, Shurima did not sit idly by, and because she was worried that the coastline would be attacked by the Void creatures, she began to evacuate the residents on her own initiative. What is written on the bulletin board is what happened during this time.
During the evacuation, a small number of Void creatures did arrive here, but they were wiped out by the guards who held their posts and the Shurima army who assisted in the evacuation, and all the inhabitants took their belongings and left their homes with dry food, leaving only vacant houses.
The only thing that didn't evacuate was the middle-aged man - no one wants to put on a crazy person who has no relatives and no reason. For fear of being contaminated.
At some point, a thick fog rose in the town. When Lan Yu and Lan Bing returned to the dilapidated hall and pushed open the half-hidden door and walked out, they suddenly found that all the buildings were hidden in the fog.
An orange-yellow light flashed through the mist, and Blue Feather immediately noticed it. The two looked towards the roof of the church in the direction of the light source, and a vague ghost flashed by, carrying a lantern in his hand.
Its head and limbs seemed to be connected to its torso at all, and when a gust of wind blew, its limbs and head swayed and could fall off at any moment.
After a few seconds, the figure collapsed and vanished.
The Cthulhu style, this trait couldn't be more obvious, and the two recognized it at a glance.
"Scarecrow! It's Federtic! β
Demons are also stirring up trouble during the Void War! Lan Yu felt a hint of surprise at first, and this was not mentioned at all in the plot. Soon he was relieved.
Federtic is a fear demon who feeds on the fears of humans. The most common emotion in war is naturally fear, especially when the enemy is a void monster. When the entire Southern Continent and even the entire Runeterras were in fear, it was simply impossible to say that Federtic would not appear.
Unexpected! Reasonable!
The only thing that can't be determined is the strength of Federtic, the strength of the demons has always been a mystery. There are demons like Moteng who have been killed once, demons like Yazarcana who can be killed by the two brothers Yon Yasuo, and Evelyn, who has decent strength.
It can be said that the upper limit of the strength of the demon species is very high, and the lower line is also very high, maybe the strength of the top demon can be compared to the ascendant or even the half of the Freljord, and the strength of the bottom demon may not even be comparable to a void creature.
However, during the Void War period, the strength of the Dread Demon must be overestimated!