Chapter 52: The Little Girl and Black Rock City
Xu Yue looked in the direction of the voice, and saw that the place was the cage that the trolls had used to place the humans who were used as sacrifices just now. When he rushed out, it was already clear that only the last human had been killed, otherwise he could have saved a few by the way.
But then he walked carefully to the iron cage and looked at it, and it turned out that there was only one left here. It's just that the rest of the body is too small, maybe the trolls have ignored it, maybe they feel that this prey is too small to sacrifice for little use, in short, they left it in the iron cage.
Xu Yue could see a little girl about six or seven years old lying in the cage through the iron cage, covered with a somewhat tattered dress. It looks like that, apparently, it was covered by the adults who were also locked up here.
At this time, the little girl was sallow-faced and sickly. Looks like she's been locked up here for a while, maybe because of hunger, and she's a little skinny. The girl was struggling weakly with her eyes closed at this time, as if she were in a nightmare, but because her body was really weak, her movements seemed weak.
Seeing the appearance of the little girl, Xu Yue, who had only been a little sad about the dead people, became angry many times, and he only had a clear understanding of the cruelty of those trolls at this time.
Before, as a person from another world, he always put himself in the position of a bystander, whether he saw people being killed, whether he saw wolves attacking Komodo Town, he was just observing from the perspective of a bystander. It's not that he's cold-blooded, it's that he always has a real feeling about what has happened recently in this other world, and he always feels that the people in this world are like NPCs in the game. It was only at this time that through the sympathy he felt for this little girl, his heart truly accepted the world and the changes in his life.
After covering his head and recalling in his heart what he had done recently, he realized that the reason why he was able to calmly lay out in so many dangerous situations was that he had brought himself into a position where he had nothing to do with himself and could withdraw at any time. And in the face of the death of this world, he only feels like a character in the game has died at most.
"Sure enough, I'm just an ordinary person!" Xu Yue, who was a little awake in his heart, said with some emotion in his heart. Knowing that now was not the time for him to sigh, after quickly adjusting his mood, he finally found the key to open the iron cage after groping around with the dead trolls for a long time, and after opening the iron cage, he hugged the little girl inside.
"Sick?" he frowned after touching the little girl's head.
After picking up the staff beside him, he used the 'secondary healing technique' on the staff, and after a white light ball fell on the little girl's body, the little girl's breathing that was a little short of time because of the pain suddenly eased a lot. However, he knew that this was only a palliative treatment, not a cure, and that the main function of the 'secondary treatment technique' was to treat physical injuries, and the therapeutic effect on the disease was limited, and it could only temporarily restore the body's functions.
After taking out a blanket from the carry-on space and wrapping the little girl's body, he walked quickly towards the way he came. Fortunately, he left a lot of magic marks along the way, otherwise it would have been difficult to find a way back.
Three hours after Xu Yue left, a team of trolls came to the altar. This group of trolls looked like the kind of warriors who were clearly skilled in combat, and they looked much more imposing than the dozen or so civilian trolls and a few guards on the altar before. The leading troll roared angrily when he saw the dead troll and the troll shaman who had been almost burned to charcoal.
He turned around and grabbed two trolls from the team, the same two who had escaped from Xu Yue's hands. He looked at the two troll civilians with angry eyes and cursed angrily: "You waste, you are the only one who has a problem with the twenty-one blood altars, even the shaman who presided over the altar is dead, and the opponent is just a human! What about the demonic beasts you drive, and where are the guards guarding the altar?"
The two troll civilians said with horror on their faces: "Lord Vorch, the demonic beasts have been taken away by the clansmen who went out to attack those humans, because the number of humans caught is too small to complete the sacrificial mission, so Lord Shaman sent the guards out to capture the humans." There were only a dozen of us left near the altar. The other party is a magician, and he not only killed the shaman, but he almost killed us with just a few spells. We retreated so that we could report the news to the adults!
The troll named Vorch gritted his teeth angrily after hearing their words, threw the two trolls on the ground and roared, "A bunch of waste, you can't even do such a small thing. If the drag of your waste affects the resurrection of our great king, then you will all be banished to the abyss of blood, where you will endure the torture of corrosive blood for all eternity! Now! find out for me the human mage who dared to destroy the sacrifice! I will torture his soul and make him feel the deepest fear and pain in the world!"
Under the roar of the troll Walt, all the troll warriors ran towards the jungle like sharp arrows, and in the blink of an eye, they had disappeared into the jungle. However, at this time, Xu Yue was already about to return to the original path of the caravan, even if the troll warriors moved fast in the jungle, they didn't want to catch up.
The way back may have been due to the fact that the trolls had driven away the Gluttonous Pig before, and most of the monsters had been driven away from the vicinity. Therefore, Xu Yue didn't run into a few demonic beasts while holding the little girl all the way, and the only few first-level demonic beasts that ran the single gang were also driven away by him with a pistol and a burning technique composed of greasy and flame techniques.
However, it was already late to get back to the place where the caravan had been attacked. The bodies of those who had been attacked had been hastily buried by the men in Joey's caravan, and the broken wagons were piled up on the side of the road. Xu Yue hurried as fast as he could before dark, but he didn't catch up with Joey's caravan until dark.
In desperation, Xu Yue could only find a slightly sheltered tree on the side of the road and sleep in the open. As a trade route to the deep forest of the night, as long as you don't encounter trolls driving monsters to attack pedestrians on the road as before, it is generally rare for monsters to wander around.
After a bonfire was lit, Xu Yue placed the little girl in a sheltered position. I put her under the stall for fear that she would catch a cold. Then he took out another 'primary healing potion' and gave it to the little girl to drink. This made the little girl a little gray and ruddy, but the little girl didn't wake up from beginning to end.
Although the possibility of encountering a demonic beast here is relatively low, Xu Yue does not dare to sleep. He stayed by the campfire until it was dark. Fortunately, his physical and mental strength are much stronger now than before, and not sleeping all night has basically no effect on him.
On the way, Xu Yue was almost all running, and he continued to use the 'Intermediate Swiftness Elixir' and 'Intermediate Endurance Elixir', as long as the body's resistance to the potion passed, he would take it immediately. And so, he still ran wildly, and in the afternoon he almost saw the gates of Black Rock City.
Looking at this majestic city, Xu Yue's heart was a little speechless, his first stop when he came to Talumia was Komodo Town, such a small town would certainly not give him, a person who is used to seeing high-rise buildings, any shock. Although I learned from the book that the land area and population of this world are farther than the earth, the scale of the city is also much larger than the ancient cities of the earth.
However, there is still a big difference between seeing it with one's own eyes and reading the records in the books, and the feeling of oppression given by the walls of Black Rock Castle, which is twenty meters high and nearly ten kilometers long, is something that those ancient cities on earth cannot do.
The gates of Black Rock Castle are two gates covered with giant trees and iron bars more than ten meters high, and the thickness of two meters looks like it is a city wall. However, the real city wall is much thicker than this, and the wall is more than ten meters wide, making people walk in the city gate and feel like walking in a tunnel.
If you want to enter the city gate, you have to pay the entrance fee, but because Xu Yue is wearing a magician's robe, the soldier who charges at the gate politely let him in.
After entering the city, he found someone to inquire about the shops selling magic potions, and then rushed straight over. In this world, there are many ways for people to heal their diseases. Ordinary civilians who are sick will find a special medical center, where there are doctors from this world who can treat diseases. The upside is that the cost is very cheap.
Doctors in this world use herbal treatments similar to those of Chinese medicine. Some medical halls will have some healing that requires herbs and some magical means, and there are often some junior magic apprentices working here.
If you are afraid of trouble, you can also directly buy various magic potions that can get rid of diseases, such as 'disease removal potions' and 'natural healing potions', etc., which can have the effect of dispelling diseases, but the taste of these potions is more unpleasant than the other.
Xu Yue's method of treating the little girl is to use magic potions. Because divine magic can only restore people's health, but it does not contribute to the loss of physical vitality. And the little girl is obviously suffering from long-term hunger and disease, and her body has lost a lot.
So he bought a 'Disease Eliminator' that had a very good effect on removing diseases, and also bought a bottle of 'Nature's Gift', which is only produced by the elves, a magic potion that can replenish the body's losses in an all-round way. These two potions alone cost him the price of a thousand gold coins, which is not enough money to buy potions in his life if he were a civilian.
After finding a better hotel, Xu Yue asked for the best room, and after entering the door, he gave the medicine to the little girl to drink.
Although the price of these two potions is scary, the effect of the potion really has nothing to say, but after the two potions, the little girl's hot forehead suddenly returned to normal body temperature. And the gray face instantly became ruddy, although the body was still so thin, but there was no longer the feeling that the fire of life seemed to be faint and would be extinguished at any time.
A few minutes later, the little girl opened her eyes a little weakly, and after seeing the environment she was in and Xu Yue sitting on the edge of the bed, her eyes showed a frightened expression, and she struggled to retreat.
Xu Yue quickly stopped her and said with a gentle smile: "Don't worry." I've saved you from those trolls, and no one will bully you!"
After a lot of effort, he finally calmed down the little girl's love. It can be seen that this girl has suffered a lot and been frightened by the trolls, and the whole person is like a frightened deer. After gaining initial trust in him, the little girl clutched his clothes and refused to let go, as if she would return to the cage where the trolls had caught her.
In the end, Xu Yue asked the clerk in the store to send some meat porridge, fed the little girl some of the thinnest soup of the meat porridge, and then used the zero-level magic 'Sleepy Technique' to make the little girl fall asleep before she was relieved.
After looking at the sky outside, Xu Yue transformed the magic robe into a large cloak with a hood. After completely hiding his body in his cloak, he walked out of the hotel in the already dark sky. According to the news he had heard during the day with a gold coin, he came to a more remote shop, knocked on the door according to a certain rhythm, and after a while the door opened a little and let him in.
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