After a night of speeding, Nock dodged countless monsters and beasts that stared at him along the way, and finally reached his first destination, Cred, at dawn.

Looking at the village shrouded in morning and dusk, Nock was standing by the road outside the village, but he couldn't help but stop moving forward.

Quiet! Surprisingly quiet.

Normally, at this point, even in the city, there are already people who get up early to cook.

Not to mention the villages engaged in farming.

But in the village in the morning and dusk in front of me, there was no light in the whole village.

Standing at the entrance of the village, Nock didn't even hear a single murmur from the village.

Not only is the village surprisingly quiet.

Even the surroundings of the village were eerily quiet.

There were no insects chirping, no birds chirping, not even the sound of the wind.

It's late autumn!

Nock looked at the village in front of him, and he felt uneasy staring into the abyss.

Just as he was hesitating to enter this strange village to find out, there was movement on the road behind him.

He turned and looked behind him.

In the distance, a dark shadow, accompanied by a sound of "stepping, clicking", was moving rapidly towards the village.

At this moment, Nock suddenly felt a chill in his back, and a creepy feeling spread all over his body.

The village behind you is alive!

The village was pitch black, and suddenly the lights were on.

The house that was originally lifeless was full of people.

In the village, chickens and dogs smell each other.

The closed door was opened, and the villagers walked out of their homes.

They greeted their neighbors warmly, or carried wooden basins, or baskets, and walked towards the entrance of the village in an endless stream.

In the house closest to the entrance of the village, an old man carrying a dim lamp walked out.

The old man carried the lamp on his head, and walked out of the village with the villagers with different expressions behind him.

However, the people of this village didn't seem to see Nock standing at the entrance of the village, completely ignoring him, a stranger standing at the entrance of the village, and passed by him with a smile.

Nock hurriedly retreated to the side of the road to avoid this group of strange villagers, his expression unchanged, but his heart was still messy.

From this group of villagers, he could not detect the breath of a living person.

To be precise, he only sensed one breath from a group of villagers.

That breath did not belong to the villagers, but to the dim oil lamp that walked in front and was held in the hand of the old man!

The joy and cheerfulness are mixed with fear and despair.

However, this chaotic atmosphere has an inexplicable attraction to Nock.

It gives him a feeling of wanting to take the initiative to join.

Nock was so frightened that he hurriedly recited the Bible in his mind, and the man quickly retreated to the grass by the side of the road, hiding himself in the grass.

The dark shadows in the distance approached the village, and Nock realized that it was an elongated carriage.

It is said to be a horse-drawn carriage, but it is not the kind of box-drawn carriage used by people to travel, but the kind of rack-drawn carriage specially used to pull goods and lengthen the frame.

Nock speculated that it might be a horse-drawn cart from the English City market to pull goods.

It's just that, in the face of the demand of an entire city, only one horse-drawn cart was sent to pull back the vegetables, which could meet the market demand?

It seems that it is not the village that is weird, but also the British market department!

When the carriage arrived at the entrance of the village and stopped, the villagers who had come out of the village had already dispersed to the vegetable fields outside the village.

Looking at the busy figures, this is completely a picture of hard farmers working.

Nock was a little skeptical that he had been tricked by illusion before.

Or maybe the exhaustion of the overnight journey made him hallucinate.

Otherwise, how could he explain the scene in front of him!

Nock was sure that the villagers in front of him were definitely not undead.

But it's certainly not normal human beings!

The driver of the carriage at the entrance of the village jumped out of the carriage, removed a ball of fresh hay from the carriage and threw it at the horse's feet, so that the horse could rest to his heart's content.

He himself came to the vegetable patch and shouted to the busy crowd: "Village Chief Motrov, can't you order more food today?" Your sudden reduction in the amount of supply has affected our market very much! Even if you temporarily increase orders to the port, you can't share the pressure immediately! ”

A dim light staggered out of the vegetable patch, and the old man with the lantern stood in the field, shouting to the coachman in a somewhat dry voice.

"Norman, I'm sorry that for some unknown reason, our vegetable patch has suddenly reduced its yield. It is really impossible to provide the market with the usual amount of vegetables. I'm afraid that if this continues, we won't even be able to collect the tax revenue for the lord. ”

Hearing the village chief's complaints, the coachman did not say anything more.

He is only in charge of running errands, not purchasing.

The market purchasing department has already sent someone to investigate, and the dishes in the Kered vegetable field are indeed inexplicably wilted.

Even if the vegetable field is wet, the vegetables in the field still die inexplicably.

Only the vegetables in the vegetable field in front of me are quite good.

As a result, the Purchasing Department reluctantly agreed to reduce the amount of vegetables provided by Cred.

After all, even if they are held accountable for breach of contract, they will not be able to extract any compensation.

Eighty percent of Cred's income has been handed over to the lord here.

He also knew that it would be impossible to get Cred to provide more supplies, but he was a bit bored waiting to pull goods, and was just idle to find someone to talk to.

"I said, Chief Motrov, have you forgotten to pay homage to the god of nature? Let me tell you, now that the Lionheart Kingdom is the territory of the Cult of Deity, it may not be useful for you to worship the God of the Harvest. ”

The chat of the little people, there are not so many estimates, and the coachman actually dares to gossip about the faith dispute of the sect.

This made Nock, who was hiding in the distance, stunned.

As a priest of the Holy Church, Nock did not dare to slander the gods of other sects behind his back.

After all, the gods are sleeping, not dead!

This coachman is going to be out of luck!

"Hehe, we countrymen don't understand that. Whatever god the lord wants us to believe, we will believe in it, and it will be our turn to be the master. ”

The village elder's answer was cunning, but his behavior was strange.

As a village chief who doesn't have to pick vegetables himself, even if he is chatting with the coachman, he does not leave the vegetable field, but prefers to shout with the coachman in the air.

As an elderly person, his behavior is a bit thankless!

It seems that the strangeness behind this is not to be seen by the coachman.

When Nock thought of this, he suddenly felt a shock in his heart.

He remembered the moment the carriage appeared, the moment when he suddenly felt his scalp tingle with his back to the village.

Perhaps, he owes the coachman his life!

Thinking of that weirdness, in order to hide the truth of the village, they are willing to waste time acting for the coachman.

If the coachman leaves, it will not be a good fate for him!

Nock didn't dare to stay any longer, and quickly turned around and secretly moved into the distance.

He's going to stay away from this weird village.

In case of the weirdness behind the scenes, in order to cover up the truth, it is not impossible to kill yourself and the coachman!

It's better to take advantage of the other party being dragged by the coachman and take the opportunity to leave, which is a good thing for both Nock and the driver.

Turning to leave, Nock didn't notice that when he decided to leave, the lights in the village flickered en masse, and then returned to normal again.

The village elder in the vegetable field glanced at Nock's location with a vacant gaze, and shook the lamp in his hand in the direction where Nock left, but finally did not move.

The coachman was still chatting with the village chief.

Nock looked around him sweating profusely.

He had been walking in the open field a moment before, but now he was in a dark dead wood.

Nock was sure that there was no such forest on the way he came.

Even if he was in a hurry at night, Ms. Quarter Moon, who had successfully lost weight, had been hanging high in the air, lighting the way forward for Nock.

Even when dawn came, she didn't leave work early.

Therefore, if there was such a dead forest on the road, it was impossible for Nok not to find it.

"Secret realm? Subspace? Or is it an illusion or a formation? ”

Nock looked around with an ugly face, and he always felt that something was wrong with the dead trees.

If it's a secret realm and a subspace, it's fine, since there is an entrance, there will definitely be an exit.

Take your time, there's always a chance you'll find it.

But if it is an illusion and a formation, it means that he has fallen into the calculations of others.

Nock wasn't afraid of illusions, and he was confident that no illusions could trap him.

But if it's a mysterious formation, it's a headache.

This kind of mystical magic brought back by the Crusade Army from the mysterious East, except for those who like to study the masters, not many people will know about it.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a record of the Crusade in the study of the monastery, Nock wouldn't even know about the existence of the formation!

Unclear about his situation for the time being, Nock didn't dare to act rashly.

However, it was not an option to stay put, so he planned to test it.

"O Lord Almighty, light the way for your faithful servant and guide me in the way."

"Illumination!"

A glimmer of light condensed in Nock's hand, gradually turning into a shimmering ball of light.

Shout!

The ball of light shot into the air, like a satellite, arching a meter above Nok's head, illuminating his surroundings for Nok.

The illumination has a radius of only five meters, but it is enough for Nok.

Illumination is a spell unique to the Light Sect, and is generally only used by clergy of the Holy Church.

As for the other professions on the mainland, they use torches or lanterns for lighting at night.

Visibility is not as wide as illumination, let alone clarity.

Nock maintained his illumination and slowly explored forward.

But he didn't notice that he was behind him, because of the appearance of illumination, in the darkness behind him, a group of dark shadows were watching him.

At the same time, outside the village of Cred.

With the help of the villagers, the fully loaded coachman drove the carriage to start the return journey before sunrise.

The departing carriage gradually disappeared from the sight of the villagers of Cred.

The village elder carried the lanterns and sent the villagers back to the village.

The village, which was once full of people, has become silent again.

The village elder carried the lamp and walked towards his house step by step.

As he walked, he muttered, "Can't escape, can't escape."

No one can spoil the tranquility here. No one ......"

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