The next morning, Jia Yi woke up.

Leaving his warm bed, he didn't sleep very comfortably.

Because he was a little disgusted that the bed in the hotel was not very clean, he thought that he slept last night with the sleeping bag he brought. For this sleeping bag, Kaichi collected duck down for a long time before making it. It's just that the quality of the fabric is not too good, and he always runs out of velvet, even if he seals several layers of fine linen.

In fact, the hygiene of the hotel is okay, but Jiayi is a little hypocritical, mainly because he is not tired, and he has the leisure to care about these things.

Then he went to the hall and started to have breakfast, a little Jia Yi was particularly strange, from last night to this morning, there was no second customer into the store, if he didn't find anything unusual, plus he was confident enough in his own strength, Jia Yi should have wondered if this was a black shop.

Jia Yi's mind flashed words about human meat barbecued pork buns, Sun Erniang, Longmen Inn, etc., and then asked the boss behind the counter: "Boss, the food in your store tastes okay and is quite clean, but how do you feel that there are no customers? I seem to be a guest until last night, why?"

"Not likely. The boss looked up at Jiayi and sighed, "It's just you, you're the only customer in our store for three days." ”

Jia Yi put down his chopsticks, feeling a little worried: "What's the matter? Why are there no guests? Is there a better hotel in the town? Or boss, have you offended someone? like a lord or something." ”

Jia Yiyi asked several guests one by one, if it wasn't for the fact that it was daytime, he would be afraid that some horror story would be staged. It's really the boss's eyes, coupled with the tone of his voice, full of horror story feeling.

"Do you see that there are a lot of outsiders in our town, how is it compared to your Sainz town?" asked the boss.

Jia Yi glanced at the street outside the door, there were only a few people on the street, and it seemed very empty.

"I didn't have the time to go out and explore, but to be honest, your town is a bit desolate. There doesn't seem to be any people on the street, and the few people who pass by occasionally seem to be from the town, so it's no wonder there's no one living in your shop. But why are there so few outsiders in your town?"

The boss said, "Originally, although our town was not as good as Sainz, it was not so desolate. It's just that since last year, the caravans that came to our town have started to disappear one by one, and we thought they had set off early, but it wasn't until someone came to us that we knew that these caravans had not returned. ”

"Didn't you meet a robber?" said Kaichi guessingly. However, Jia Yi had a hunch that it couldn't be so simple, otherwise it wouldn't have led to such a small number of caravans in the town, and there were almost no outsiders.

"It's not the robbers, their goods have been found, and none of the robbers are just trying to catch people, but they don't care about the caravans' caravan,"

"What's going on? You know what?"

The boss said, "Because caravans often go missing in the town, there are rumors that there are people in the town who specialize in catching outsiders to sacrifice to demons. In particular, all the missing people are in the town or not far from the vicinity. Then, gradually, few caravans came back to our town. ”

"Then your lord didn't think of a way? Jia Yi asked.

"Why not, but it's useless. The boss came to his table and sat down, "The lord's guards have found nothing, only the goods left behind by the caravan. ”

"Where did you find the goods?"

"It's where the caravan is stationed, but all the people of the caravan are gone. It was certainly not the robbers, and it is said that their goods did not move at all, and it was not at all like a request for money. ”

Jia Yi became interested, it was the first time he had heard such a bizarre thing, but he was also curious about how the boss knew so clearly.

"Boss, do you have a relationship with Shenma? ”

"What does this have to do with it, the people in the town basically know it, after all, the soldiers of the guard are all from the town, we watched them grow up, and everyone knows what is going on. ”

After the boss finished speaking, he saw that Jia Yi was a little moved, and asked, "I think you look like an adventurer, are you interested in investigating?" ”

In order to facilitate travel, Jiayi deliberately dressed up as an adventurer and wore a pair of leather armor, which would make people feel combed if he was dressed as a practitioner.

"Forget it, I still have to hurry, so I won't wade into this troubled water. Jia smiled.

When he had finished his breakfast, he was ready to go out into town, and he was ready to leave again near noon. So that you can go to a village in the evening and spend the night there.

This gives you half a day to explore the town.

The town was not far from Sainz, but he never came. When he used to go to the provincial capital, he always walked in a straight line, and he never passed by this town.

The town is very sparsely populated, even in the off-season compared to Sainz Town. It seems that this paranormal event has affected not only the caravans from outside, but also the people of the territory.

There is a feeling of walking in a ghost town.

Kaichi turned a corner and saw a grocery store in front of him. He suddenly became interested, this kind of shop generally sells more miscellaneous things, and sells everything. There are also many things for adventurers to sell, and this kind of town generally does not sell things for adventurers.

According to the general routine, this kind of grocery store will have some pearl dusty goodies waiting for the protagonist to discover.

He walked in, and there was not a single customer in the store except for a person who seemed to be the owner.

Jia Yi walked to the front of the shelves, and the shelves were full of ordinary things, kettles, sickles, flints and the like, and Jia Yi was a little disappointed when he saw these.

"Boss, are you all that stuff here?

"What do you want?" asked the clerk who looked like the owner, looking up.

"Is there anything that adventurers can use?"

"It's all in front, flint, kettle, I still have a tent here, do you want it?"

Kaichi walked to the counter and said, "These are all too ordinary, are there any better things, such as antiquities that can't be identified, materials that I don't recognize?"

"Do you still want to find something good? You have been an outsider here lately, do you have anything to sell me?" the boss smiled, but with a bitter smile.

"How do you know I'm from outside?"

"Not to mention that I know almost all the people in the town, and you don't look like a local in your outfit. ”

Jiayi himself also smiled, feeling a little silly, his adventurer's dress doesn't look like he is dressed at home, and the town is not big, even if Jiayi himself, although he rarely moves in the town, but the people in the town almost all know each other.

"Why are there so few people in your town?" asked the question again.

The innkeeper's answer was no different from the innkeeper's, it seems that the innkeeper is right, almost everyone here knows the details of this matter, but no one knows why this is happening.

"Many of the people who used to live in the town have returned to the countryside, fearing that it will affect them. Those of us who have nowhere else to go in the countryside will stay in the town. The shopkeeper finally said helplessly.

"How come there are still people in the town missing?"

"Not really, since the caravans have not returned, no one has gone missing. But who dares to guarantee that the people in the town will not be safe. ”

"It seems that this culprit has a lot of affection for the town. Kaichi thought thoughtfully, "Don't you have any guesses?"

"I advise you to leave quickly, why do you think this thing is so evil. The caravan was not without guards, but there was no resistance. Seeing that you are thin and small, it is still important to save your life and leave early. ”

The shopkeeper wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, just kept persuading Kaichi to leave quickly, as if the night was particularly terrifying.

Jia Yi came out of the store, and as he walked, he thought that nothing happened to the residents of the town this time, but there was a problem with the foreign caravan, and it was clear that the culprit had nothing to do with the town.