As Thor continued deeper into the archaeological city of Sterné, which had been reduced to dusty ruins, Klee, who had been left behind in the uninhabited town, suddenly looked up from the magic book.

"I think I hear someone talking." The two strands of red hair around Klee's ears were cocked up, like antennas picking up signals.

Sitting next to Klee, Agu answered her questions from time to time, paused slightly, "Ann just walked around the town, and it is true that there has been no one living here for a long time. Could it be that someone else came to rest? ”

An Zong, who had been on guard on the roof, jumped down.

She used her mental power to perceive her surroundings again, but found nothing.

"Miss Klee, can you tell where the sound is coming from?"

Klee listened intently for a while, her long red hair falling down, "There is no sound now, but the voice just now doesn't sound far from us." ”

This is even more strange, Encore has been watching the surroundings.

If Klee could hear someone speak directly with her ears alone, then there was no reason why she and Agu couldn't hear it?

However, they really didn't notice the slightest fluctuation in their mental power now.

Keli is not yet the second order, and it stands to reason that her strength should not be as good as An's, and the direction of her major does not involve the spiritual body, so she heard a movement that neither An nor Agu heard.

However, Ann didn't think that Klee was hallucinating just because she hadn't noticed anything.

She turned her lower body into a spider, climbed up the wall, flew on the wall, and thoroughly inspected the small courtyard where they had temporarily settled.

Still, nothing was found.

"Strange." Ann returned to her place in confusion, looking at the surrounding walls and the houses on both sides, "I still haven't found it." Could it be that someone sneaked in and left? ”

Kelly was a little embarrassed, she tugged at her hair and said hesitantly, "Maybe I misheard." ”

She looked down at the magic book spread out on her lap, "Maybe it's influenced by this book." ”

Agu hurriedly said, "Miss Keli, you better take a rest." If you are really affected by this book, then you should recover your mental strength as soon as possible to avoid deeper effects. If not, you also need to recharge and deal with other abnormal situations. ”

Krly closed the book with some reluctance.

The book is a compilation of the Kuroshio current pollution that Saul and Byron have studied, as well as lab-grade inerting formulas.

Kree was shocked and quickly became obsessed with it.

If it weren't for the fact that Thor had not been able to prevent her from being mentally abnormal, Thor would have severely restricted her reading time, and Khari would have been able to watch her eyes for days and nights.

"Actually, I only watched it for less than ten minutes today......"

“…… When I have money......"

Klee's voice stopped abruptly.

Even Agu and Ann stood up and looked around with a wary expression.

Yes, the voice just now reappeared.

The sound is clearer.

And this time, Agu and Ann also heard it.

"It's very close." Ann squinted, and her gaze finally fell on the house behind them.

“…… I'm going to go to Archaeology too, but not now......"

The sound is getting clearer and clearer.

Ann gestured to the others, then slowly approached the house behind her.

There were still voices coming from inside.

“…… I'm gone now, who will take care of you......"

Andu could already hear through the window that it was a boy's voice, estimated to be less than 16 years old.

Her face was solemn, ready to fight.

When she was doing the inspection just now, she obviously also inspected every house in this small courtyard.

There's no one in there!

But why is there a little boy now?

Especially after listening to a few words clearly, Ann still didn't find the spiritual power that should belong to the boy.

It's as if there is only a voice and no one in it.

But when Ann's head was about to be pressed against the window, she faintly saw the figures of two people.

It's just that both figures are a little strange.

Kerry released the protective development and walked to Ann's side.

"Just open it and look at it." Kelly also noticed an anomaly.

She had a serious expression, but she pushed the window open.

After the window was pushed open, both Ann and Agu tensed their non-existent muscles in an instant.

There were indeed two people behind the window.

But these two people ...... It turned out to be a caterpillar with a human head!

Both caterpillars have the thickness of a male forearm.

There are black spots on the fat white body in circles. Small, very sharp spike-like hairs are all over the body, only near the neck.

It was here that little by little, the white bugs turned into dark skin, and finally evolved into a boy's head.

The boy's neck and face were not large, about the size of a worm's body, as if his head had come out of the worm's body.

Klee's action of pushing the door did not disturb the boy, or the boy's caterpillar, nor did it alarm the listener across from him.

An old man with gray hair and a wrinkled face, also on the body of a caterpillar.

The boy caterpillar is still talking.

“…… Don't persuade me, when I do some more work and prepare food for you for the winter, I'll go to the city to earn money......"

Klee pursed her lips and glanced at Ann on the side.

Then, she gently closed the window.

"Is it a hallucination?" Kerry said softly.

Until the anomaly is found, they speak in a normal voice.

But Klee, who was shocked by the scene just now, got goosebumps all over her body, and subconsciously communicated in the lowest voice.

As if afraid of the human caterpillars in the house, they will hear their conversation, and then crawl out little by little with their chrysalis bodies.

"Not really." An's face was also ugly, "But their mental power fluctuations are very weak, like two ordinary civilians." ”

"If their heads don't grow on the neck of a caterpillar, the old and the young are like ordinary people."

Those two strange existences only exude the fluctuations of ordinary people.

It's hard to believe.

"Anyway, let's get out of this courtyard first." Agu lowered her voice as she did.

The three of them tiptoed and quietly left the courtyard where they had just settled.

Behind them, there was still a faint sound of conversation.

It wasn't until they closed the gate of the courtyard that the sound was completely cut off.

Klee touched her arm, "Wait a minute, we'll go over and have a look." ”

Ann looked at Klee incredulously, "We don't need to enter again, do we?" ”

Now that I think about it, this small courtyard is very weird, and Ann, as a warrior who protects Klee, naturally doesn't want Klee to return to the small courtyard that doesn't know the depths of the depths.

"They didn't show aggression. Elemental particles here are also not very active. Klee thought of the inerting formula she had just seen in the book and couldn't wait to try it out for herself.

However, when they opened the gate again after a while, they found that the courtyard was empty again, and there was no sound of conversation.

Ann, as a pioneer, was still the first to enter.

She went straight to the innermost room, and this time, pushing open the window, she didn't see the caterpillar with the human face.

"It's gone." Ann stared blankly into the room.

The house was covered with dust.

There is no trace of the dragging that a caterpillar should have when it moves.

(End of chapter)