Volume 1 Mountain Village 58: Treasure Hunt
The human wants to rush home before his sister is out of school, hide the black history message that he forgot to clean up in a place where it is not easy to be found, and when he is done, he will pick up his sister from school.
He muttered that he was going to go into the mountains soon, and that the time to see his sister was getting less and less, but in Fang Nuo's opinion, although this guy had done a lot of superficial preparations, he had not made up his mind in his heart.
He hoped that there would be an opportunity to stop him and change his idea that he was purely deadly.
You know it very well in your own heart, Fang Nuo thought silently, he had finally picked up a life before, and now, human instinct was also desperately warning him:
There is an equation between "entering the dark forest" and "self-defeating".
They parted ways in the village, and before parting, Fang Nuo gave the humans a piece of hedgehoggrass, intending to trick the other party into complimenting him so that he could have a chance to read his memories.
But as soon as he tugged at the human's trouser leg and motioned for him to take the herb he had in his mouth, Fang Nuo regretted it.
He reacted that Noka was just an ordinary person who had not contained spiritual power at all.
If an ordinary person was asked to bear the price of Huang Xian's expansion of the spiritual power capacity in his body and the enhancement of his personality, what would he become?
It should, probably, maybe, most likely...... Will he die violently, right?
Fang Nuo's heart was inexplicably anxious, and he found that he could not guess the next actions of other life forms, especially humans.
The two mourning birds with simple behavior logic are relatively easy to predict, but for humans, he uses his own logic as a reference to figure out their thoughts, but there are too many mistakes.
This is true of witches, of the ill-intentioned villagers of the mountain village, and of the young man who has not known him for a long time, but who has miraculously developed a clear affection for the species of "humans".
"Phew." As Noka bent down and reached out to take the grass from his mouth, Fonno spit it out.
The blue grass fell into the mud, and Noka's body seemed to be forcibly folded in half by an invisible force, and it didn't straighten up for a long time.
His hand froze only a little distance from the beast's head, an awkward smile on his face, a look of confusion in his eyes, and he met the beast looking up at him.
Forget it, forget it, Fang Nuo turned and ran away.
The two birds on their heads let out a burst of ugly calls, and soon, they also chased their monster friends and left.
Fang Nuo didn't see it, and after he hurriedly fled the scene, the human, who seemed to have been tricked by him, picked up the hedgehog grass from the ground, scratched his head in some confusion, and then casually put it in his pocket.
This is the first time I have received a gift from a small animal, although it looks a little embarrassed, and it is so shy that it drops such a beautiful grass and runs away.
At some point, Noka put back on his coat with a map of the village, put his hands in his pockets, whistled happily, and walked towards the cottage that he remembered belonged to the siblings.
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It was another late night, and Fang Nuo, who had been hiding in the village all night, came out of his hiding place, and he finally survived until the humans in the village fell asleep and everything fell silent.
He sketched in his mind the image of the "treasure map" during the day, and analyzed the location where the "treasure" was most likely to be buried against the map hanging on the notice board of the mountain village.
His treasure hunt companions were the two noisy mourning birds, and at this moment, they both were very wise to quiet down, and to suppress their instincts with reason.
"Aren't you worried, little one?" Xiao Hei, who prides himself on being "brainy", lowered his voice and asked, "Aren't you afraid that this is a trap?" β
"If it was really that easy to find, the guy who left this map should have taken the so-called 'treasure' with him a long time ago." He pecked the ground with his mouth, "What is left for us is most likely just an 'empty treasure chest', I mean, if there is really a treasure behind this totem." β
He knew he couldn't understand Fang Nuo's response, so he continued to himself:
"The most tempting 'treasure' of our demon beasts is the 'Beast King's Relic', the bear who died miserably seems to have gotten some, but after he disappeared, they were all divided up by the powerful demon beasts in the forest."
"Moreover, even if the treasure is really the inheritance of the Beastmaster...... he glanced at the Queen of the Mourning Bird, "In the past, the Queen has popularized science with the younger generation of our clan, and most of the legends of the 'Beastmaster's Relic' are deceived and cannot be trusted. β
The bird queen on the side, Taro, nodded very cooperatively.
I didn't intend to go with you to explore the secrets behind the totems, you found them yourself...... Fang Nuo grumbled in his heart.
But on the bright side, he didn't want to conflict with the two birds and cause confusion at this juncture, so he kept smiling, pretending not to care about the broken thoughts of these two guys.
"If you don't try, how can you prove your conjecture?"
He relied on the mourning birds to understand what he meant, and pretended to be timid, gesturing to "just go and see", "even if I really find it, I won't investigate further".
He knew that although the mourning birds were all trying to persuade him to give up, they must have curiosity in their hearts and an exploration of unknown "treasures".
We are all the same...... He thought to himself, and then hurriedly denied himself: he was not a mourning bird, nor was he as simple-minded as a mourning bird.
"Come along." He gathered his thoughts and ran towards the middle of the village.
"Wait for us!" Xiao Hei and Taro hurriedly followed.
In the square in the center of the mountain village, there are several pairs of stone pillars as high as the one-story houses, and the top of the pillars is equipped with a loudspeaker for broadcasting, and a wire is connected to the bottom, which leads to the surface of the ground and leads to the village radio studio.
In the middle of the square, a platform was built for the village authorities to speak.
In the eyes of Fang Nuo and the mourning birds, it was nothing remarkable, but in the eyes of the ordinary people in the village, whoever stood on this podium suddenly had the power and status comparable to that of the village chief.
In the eyes of the villagers, the podium, which covers such a small area, is like the place of freedom in their hearts, the most expansive and unrestricted place they have ever seen.
After the witch came, she used her spiritual power to transform the neighborhood, which also caused the dissatisfaction of some villagers who yearn for power, who believe that she, an "outsider", has defiled their dreams.
On the way to the square from the main road of the village, the road is lined with the habitats of the villagers, and the houses of different heights and the size of the courtyard in front of the gate symbolize the different status of their owners.
Humans who do not perceive spiritual power do not have a personality of strength, but they can compare and compete with each other in other concepts.
After leaving the other side of the square, the road splits into three, one leading to the outside of the village, to the lair of the dryads, and other areas belonging to the dark forest; One leads to the village chief's mansion, where Fang Nuo had visited and witnessed the "Riddler" behavior of the village chief and the witch.
The last one is the way to the church school.
"There's a little more detail on the totem than the village map." Fang Nuo thought back to the conclusion he had come to by comparing the two maps, "Although some of them were omitted by Mr. Raven, they were later added by the human......"
"Only what was supposed to be a church school, no, take off the guise of a school, it is said that it was converted from a village church to what it is now." Fang Nuo vaguely recalled what the young man had chatted with him during the day.
At that time, Noka pulled a lot of things at himself lying on his lap, not only to practice his eloquence, to prepare for his sister's studies, but also to vent the resentment in his heart.
When he went into the mountains in winter, he not only failed to find the remains of his parents, but also almost became a ration for a giant bear with his sister...... How could this not make him feel depressed and powerless?
What's more, in addition to the fact that this human being can't perceive spiritual power, is essentially the best in the village, and has vision and some skills.
"Before our witches settled in this village, the people of the village called it a 'temple' and it was used to worship the 'gods' in their hearts, but it was actually just a building for moody monsters ...... 'monsters'." At that time, Noka said to him.
"There were children who were sent there to be educated, but their fate was also decided the moment they entered the temple." With a sad look on their faces, the human sighed, "They will become one-sided priests in the hearts of the villagers, and when they grow up, they will be forced to 'unconditionally' serve the beasts that threaten the village." β
"That is, to be sacrificed." As he spoke, the humans unconsciously clenched their fists, "Their flesh and blood have been sacrificed to the brutal 'gods' in exchange for their satisfaction and refrain from invading the village. β
"But a beast is a beast, and even if they eat a good meal without difficulty, they will still cast their greedy eyes on our village, which in their eyes is their hunting ground."
At that time, hearing the young man say this, Fang Nuo's heart was not very comfortable.
He was educated that he had always thought that "greed" was the word used to describe human beings.
However, he heard it from a human, and it was used to describe orcs.
Their Yellow Immortal Clan was different from other beast clans, he could only comfort himself like this, their clan had always adhered to their principles and not to prey on creatures that had opened their minds...... Hehe, most likely because they are too small for "human" to be in their recipe.
At this moment, under the darkness of the night, the snow-white beast and the two mourning birds had arrived at the gate of the mountain village church.
The metal balustrades that make up the gate are tall and sturdy, closely aligned with each other, reflecting a cold glow from the silver glow of the moon overhead.
The crossbar used to stabilize the overall structure is also far from the ground, making it difficult for outsiders to climb.
But these little tricks against humans are not obstacles at all for birds and miniature beasts.
They easily passed through the gate and came to the courtyard in front of the church building, where the first thing that caught the eyes of the beasts was a fountain that had stopped running water during the night.
The fountain's austere appearance, combined with the flower beds built around it, suggests that its true function was not to decorate, but to irrigate plants.
In this way, it is probably not "stopping the water at night", but there is no need to open the sluice gates in the first place - in the cold winter, even the water that is constantly flowing will be frozen, and the flower beds will not have any plants to water, but will be covered with a thick layer of snow.
"Shall we go indoors?" Xiao Hei landed on the snow and walked around the flower bed, leaving a long series of four-toed paw prints, "Indoors, the danger is debatable." β
If they were just outside looking for the location of the treasure, they would be able to flapp their wings and run away as soon as a potential crisis is triggered.
But indoors is not, and they are likely to get trapped.
"This ......"
Fang Nuo didn't know the answer to this question, the map gave such a general location that he could only guess the approximate extentβit was within the church school.