In the lightless environment, a figure lights two inferior candles.

He took a bundle of woven straw rings and put them around the candles, making a simple little ritual.

"Every day, the light source that shines on the earth, and 'joy'." (incantation)

"The ripe fruit of the tree, the blooming sunflower, and the rose." (incantation)

"Every day in the future will be better and better, and everyone will be confident and happy day by day."

"I give you 'good luck'." (incantation)

The candle went out suddenly.

Looking at the half-burned candle, the ritual performer who had returned to the embrace of darkness sighed lightly, and said with emotion:

"Destiny is set."

"In that case...... he looked up and pushed his glasses down, "how I wish I could die a romantic and passionate death among the flowers." ”

"Instead," he put his hand on his forehead, his drooping palms covering his face, hiding his expression, "to lose his life in the midst of the invectives and curses of the people." ”

Suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the house, louder and closer.

He was startled, and subconsciously waved his hand to sweep all the ritual supplies on the table to the ground, and then raised his hand, causing a book that was not stable on the bookshelf not far away to automatically fall and fly in front of him.

Clapping his hands, the curtains of the room opened on their own.

Light from the outside filters through the windows, creating an area for him to read.

The next moment after all this was done, the door of the room was pushed open from the outside, and the carriage merchant, whom he had known the day before, leaned against the door frame without standing still, and greeted him with a smile:

"Yo."

"Mr. Yoi." He also smiled back faintly, "You're done talking to the witch?" ”

"We're going into the mountains." The other party's words were amazing.

"Into the mountains?" As soon as the words came out, he saw a satisfied expression on Mr. Yoi's face, as if his reaction perfectly met the other party's expectations.

"Why?" He duly showed his astonishment, "Truth be told, our witch just went there a few days ago. ”

"At that time, she had already successfully defeated the fierce beast that was the cause of the disaster, the 'King Giant Bear'."

"There's more than that monster on the mountain." Mr. Yoi whistled nonchalantly, "Isn't your village also infested by monsters from time to time?" ”

"Although the phenomenon of forest spiritual power disorder has improved, the upcoming beast tide is still inevitable, and there are not many days left." The carriage merchant threw out another bombshell news.

"Beast tide?!" He couldn't hide his surprise now, took half a step back, hit the table behind him, and almost twisted his waist.

"Be careful, old man." The Scarface Outsider said with concern, but his tone came across as cold and impersonal.

Even if he was scared to death on the spot, he probably wouldn't make any waves in his heart, the owner of the house thought to himself.

"We're going to hunt the monster led by the one who is waiting for this disaster to happen." Mr. Yoe announced.

He covered the burn scar on his face with his hands, lowered his voice, and added:

"In the name of the Holy Cross."

"The beast tide is coming, and all living beings can only wait for death!" The owner of the house suddenly became excited, spread his hands, and angrily said to the person who came for no reason, "Who would expect to profit from such a calamity? ”

"Demon beasts with normal thinking should choose to run away now." He lowered his head, his chin pressed above his collarbone, and said, "Run out of the forest, out of the mountains, the farther you go...... How far can you run, how far you can run. ”

“…… What about you? ”

The carriage merchant who stood at the door and did not leave for a long time stared at the old man who stood in the circle of light for a long time, and at the end, he asked sullenly.

"Me?" The person who was asked replied with a wry smile, "I am a human being, and I have no ability, how far can I run?" ”

"Of course, I can only stay in this mountain village, accompany the residents here, and run to the arms of death."

"Yes."

Hearing him answer this, the carriage merchant did not say anything, and after answering lightly, he propped himself up from the door frame, as if he was "greeting and preparing to leave".

"Grandpa the village chief!" At this moment, another cheerful footstep came from outside the house, and soon, a short figure appeared in the field of vision of the two.

"Yo, hello." The carriage merchant raised his hand and swiped it over the side of his forehead, as if he had said hello.

"Mr. Yoi?" The little boy Mike paused, and immediately became hesitant about whether or not he wanted to go forward.

"You...... How did you end up here? He stood on tiptoe and looked into the depths of the room, but he didn't see anything because of the wrong angle, "Are you also here to visit the village chief's grandfather?" ”

"I would like to apply for a temporary residence from Mr. Village Chief." When dealing with small children, the carriage merchant was always gentle and polite, trying not to make a bad impression on them, "not taking much time...... Ah, it's over now. ”

"I'm leaving." He reached out and put his hand on the child's shoulders and gently pushed him into the house, "I won't disturb you grandparents and grandchildren." ”

After that, he simply left.

"Oh...... Oh. The little boy Mike was still confused, and only after watching the strange businessman disappear from his field of vision did he turn his head to look at his "grandfather the village chief".

The two of them are not actually related by blood, and the children of the village can call their village chief that.

However, because his mother was a widow and was often cared for by the older generation in the village, his relationship with the village chief was far closer than that of the other children.

At this moment, Mike happened to witness the scene of the old village chief sliding on the ground.

"Grandpa the village chief!" He immediately exclaimed.

"Oh! Oh! Outside the window, too, the chirping of the mourning birds could be heard, as if they were foreseeing something bad about to happen.

"Joy, joy, good luck, good luck......" the old man whispered a phrase he did not understand, his legs were weak, and he could not stand up for a moment, no matter how much he tugged.

"I'm such a useless guy." The gray-haired old gentleman said to himself.

"Did the merchant do something?"

Mike put down the hand that had pulled the old village chief's arm, turned around and rushed towards the door, intending to catch up with the carriage merchant who had left earlier, and question him properly.

"Wait!" Behind him came the soft cry of an old man.

"Grandpa the village chief!" Only then did a bright look appear on the child's face, "Are you awake?" ”

"You were acting really abnormal, like you were enchanted."

"I'm fine." The old man waved his hand, picked up the eye that had slipped from the bridge of his nose, and then stood up.

The next moment, he froze in place again, and his whole body seemed to have turned into a sculpture.

"Grandpa the village chief?" Mike, with a confused look on his face, followed the old man's line of sight to the door.

So, a small white figure sitting on the threshold rushed into his field of vision without warning.

……

Fang Nuo took the blind spider emerald and rushed all the way to the place agreed between the witch and the carriage merchant last night, that is, the mansion of the head of the mountain village.

During his journey, Fang Nuo closed his eyes and imagined an illusory image of the eyes in his mind, referencing the spell he had heard from the emerald when he was still in the witch's hut, and then channeling spiritual power and infusing them into the outline of the eyes.

Subsequently, he acquired the new ability to see things even with his eyes closed!

Unlike the previous spiritual power perception and the "miracles" that need to be actively used to trigger, this ability is like opening an "eye in the sky" for him, and it can be maintained without intentionally activating it.

Closing it is the act that requires force.

Although constructing an illusory but persistent "third eye" would add a small burden to the circulation and expenditure of spiritual power in his body, its spiritual power consumption was negligible and could be ignored directly.

"Wouldn't it? Did you comprehend it so quickly? In this regard, the blind spider Emerald expressed great surprise, "Big man, are you a genius?" ”

"My name is 'Fang Nuo,'" Fang Nuo made a belated self-introduction, informing Emerald of his 'name', "By the way, how does this name sound to you?" ”

"'Fangnuo' is 'Fangnuo'?" The emerald didn't match his frequency at all.

"That's it." The snow-white beast sighed in his heart, "I didn't expect to get a serious answer from you. ”

The name that has existed as his "self-knowledge" since he can remember seems to have a special meaning in the outside world...... He couldn't find any clues about it.

I don't know where to start.

If he could figure out how the name was pronounced in the languages of other races, especially the lingua franca of mankind, or even the official language of a country, he might be able to find out the secret behind it.

I was able to figure out the identity of the strange beings who called this name in hallucinations and dreams.

Fang Nuo's mind was very clear, although he still thought that his name was "Fang Nuo", he no longer limited this name to himself.

In this world, it is not that there will be no existence with the same name.

The redwoods are now a dense forest.

In this way, they arrived at the village chief's mansion.

When I first arrived, I saw Mr. Yo, a "capable man", leaving the courtyard in a hurry, and some unpleasant sounds that frightened the beast's heart were heard from the direction of the house.

Afraid that he had missed something big, Fang Nuo hurriedly spread his legs, walked through the courtyard, and ran to the door of the room where the sound was made.

Then I saw the little boy I knew desperately dragging the village chief of the mountain village, and I didn't know whether I wanted to help him up or use brute force to kidnap him to another place.

Seeing that nothing was happening in the room, Fang Nuo suddenly lost interest in this place.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of several large birds standing on the windowsill outside the window, and turned away from the room, skirting the mansion to meet the mourning birds.

"You're going to have to hide it." He instructed the little bugs that he had accidentally brought out, "Maybe they will target and eat them." ”

"......," Emerald let out a wail, "No. ”

When they returned to the courtyard, since Fang had already made eye contact with the two birds through a window, they had already flown over without Fang Nuo deliberately looking for them.

The figures of two big birds with their wings spread and hanging in the air were reflected in their eyes, and a thought flashed in the mind of the snow-white little beast in an instant.

He stood up, letting the emeralds hang upside down in his hair, and stretched out his arms to the two mourning birds.

"Hey—"

Unleash spiritual power, using the spiritual power that exists in the air and atmosphere as a medium, and deliver them to the mourning birds—with the heart he wants to express.

"Come on—" Fang Nuo closed his eyes and sketched in his mind the words corresponding to the spells needed for the sealing ceremony, and then sketched them again with his spiritual powers.

"Compliment me!" Then, following the example of the previous experiment that was unclear whether it was successful or not, the idea was put into the minds of the mourners.

Happily, the two birds apparently stopped in the air for a moment, as if they didn't expect "this kind of operation".

But this also shows that his experiment is indeed effective, but it is not clear how much of the mind can be transmitted into the brains of those two guys, and I don't know if they will misunderstand their own meaning.

Hurry up! He shouted in his heart, the mourning birds should already have experience.

He can borrow their eyes and experience what he has missed.

All it takes is a succinct reply -

"Look at me, is it a human, a mourning bird, or a 'fairy beast'?"