The spring was bright, and the midday sun brought a soft warmth. But the scene in front of him made Duru's heart feel chilly.
He had seen smoke rising before and thought it was a sign of smoke.
I drove the gondola over and saw that there was indeed a crowd of people. The source of the smoke was a small village on the outskirts of the forest, but at this time there was no living person in the village.
Dozens of houses had been completely burned by flames. The fires had disappeared, leaving only smoke.
As for the villagers.
Dulu looked at the mortal corpses hanging on the wooden piles outside every house, shock and anger flashed in his eyes.
The men's corpses had all their limbs cut off, and they were cut into sticks and stuck on wooden stakes. The women were naked, disemboweled and piled up randomly. What made Dulu feel the most chilling was that the corpses of children were also everywhere.
Regardless of whether they were men or women, their clothes were all stripped down and they were covered in filth.
There is no living person, all are corpses with great resentment.
Some people's eyes have not even been closed, and before their pupils dilate, the look of resentment and curse has not disappeared. It made Dulu feel horrified in his heart.
He has seen dead people, whether it was a corpse that was eaten by sea beasts with only the head left, or soldiers who were cut into corpses on the battlefield; he even saw a captive animal kept by the wizard in Baibeihai City.
Eating ghoul.
But never once did he feel so angry inside.
He squatted in front of a house that had been reduced to a black charcoal frame by fire. In front of him was the body of a boy that exuded a fishy odor. His eyes were not closed, and he was looking at the sky aimlessly, and his pale cheeks were covered with stains from the house.
There were ashes after burning, but there was a white line from the corner of his eyes to the shell of his ears.
Dulu could even picture the scene at that time. The boy cried silently before his death. His tears crossed the corners of his eyes and fell on the shell of his ears, leaving this faint white line.
Drew gasped and reached out his hand to touch the boy's eyes.
"Sleep, you will be happy in another world." Dulu muttered softly, and as his palms touched him, the boy's eyes closed.
"The worst thing in the world is the human heart." Angel stood behind Dulu and sighed softly, "From a certain perspective, humans are actually beasts. They think they have understood their true self and are transcendent from beasts; but sometimes they do
What happened is even more insane than a beast following primitive instincts."
Drew's eyes were filled with anger: "Master Pat, do you know who did it?"
"I don't know, the fire wiped out all traces."
Duru was silent for a moment, "Sir, can I bury them if I want to? It's cold in spring and the bones are lying in the open. They should be very cold."
"They are already dead." Angel wanted to continue saying that after death, there is no soul and no aura of nature, and the corpse is a useless skin. Moreover, they have nothing to do with you.
But he didn't say the unfinished words, he just nodded and let Dulu do what he did.
He can guide Dulu on how to face the cold winter in the wizarding world, but Dulu does not want to interfere too much with his own good and evil alignment and how to choose how to deal with others.
Perhaps, in the future, Dulu will become a black wizard or a white wizard. When he looks back on this experience, will he be disgusted or sigh? Or maybe he will laugh at himself for being too stupid at the time?
Angel stood aside quietly and did not interfere with Duru's movements.
He was willing to let Duru spend time doing this, actually because he was a little timid about his hometown. Before returning to the old continent, he wanted to fly back immediately. But the closer he got to his hometown, it made him a little timid.
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The village is small and there are not many people.
Angel threw Dulu a hoe that was easy to smelt, and it took him a long time to dig a big pit.
By the time Dulu covered it with soil, it was almost dusk.
Du Lu held a handful of white flowers in his hand and placed them in front of the pit. He stood silently for a long time. It was not until the sunset dyed his eyes reddish and the evening wind blew up the petals that he walked over to Angel and apologized in a low voice.
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"I wasted your time. I was too willful."
"Whether you are willful or not, you can judge for yourself after you truly set foot in the wizarding world." Angel turned around first and took out the gondola: "Let's go, before night falls, find a human settlement and ask about the current location."
After returning to the gondola, Dulu was obviously in a lower mood than before. After being silent for a long time, he suddenly asked: "Sir, would a wizard do such a thing to massacre a village?"
"Yes." And it's more ruthless than you think.
Angel's answer made Dulu's eyes flash with sadness.
"Wizards are also human beings, and people's bad qualities will show up accordingly no matter which class they are in. It's just a whitewash or an explicit distinction." Angele paused: "However, because the class gap is too big. Between wizards
To mortals, they are like clouds and mud. Therefore, if mortals do not provoke wizards, wizards will not deliberately deal with mortals. This is the default rule of the wizarding world. After all, the backbone of wizards must be born from mortals."
"On the contrary, it is between mortals who have no burdens and are keen on internal struggles."
The topic ended here, Duru took the gondola and continued to move towards the interior of the continent, while Angel leaned on the side of the ship, looking at the distant mountains and forests dyed red by the sunset, with nostalgia in his eyes.
Angel's original plan was to find people before nightfall. But unfortunately, when the stars rose at night, they found no trace of any living people.
"It seems we are going the wrong way." Angel yawned: that small village should not be an independent village, there must be a town nearby, so they chose to walk along the road outside the small village.
of.
However, the small village finally led to the mountain forest, and there were no fixed trails in the mountain forest, so they chose a direction at will. Unexpectedly, they flew nearly a thousand miles and saw no trace of human beings.
"Then do we want to return again? If we drive at full speed, we will arrive soon." Dulu asked. In order to find human traces, they flew very low and very slowly, so it took them a long time to fly such a short distance.
"It's up to you."
Dulu thought for a while and decided to go back to the previous mountain forest and choose a new direction.
But just as he was turning around, an orange-red light suddenly appeared in the dark forest in the distance.
"Firelight? Is there anyone still in the forest at night?" Duru suddenly remembered something: "Could it be that he is a forest guard?"
Thinking of this, Drew immediately drove the gondola and flew to the light of the fire.
When the flying boat landed, it was discovered that he was not the so-called forest guard, but a girl wrapped in a layer of animal skin, shivering in front of the campfire.
Their landing filled the girl's eyes with fear and a hint of curiosity.
She had never seen a ship that could fly in the sky, and the ship was so beautiful, which made her curious about their identity even as she was frightened of the visitors.
Drew jumped out of the boat first, jumped onto the big tree, slid down the trunk, and landed in front of the girl.
"Don't be afraid, we are just..." Dulu thought for a long time, and finally an idea flashed: "Traveler, we are traveling travelers. I won't hurt you, I just want to ask for directions."
Dulu's words did not resonate with the girl. She still looked at Dulu warily, while covering the package in her arms with one hand and waving a dagger with the other.
"Okay, I'm not going there, so why don't I just ask here?" Dulu sighed: "Where is this place? How far is it from the nearest town? Which direction should we go?"
Dulu's question made the girl pause for a moment before she slowly spoke: "I don't believe you, go away immediately! If you want to find people, just go over there..."
The girl points to the southeast.
"Is that a town in that direction? What is the name of the country we are in now?"
The girl stopped answering, just hugged the package and stared at Drew fiercely.
Dulu didn't know what to do. Why, he wanted to deal with a woman? When he was at a loss, Angel's voice came: "Dulu, come up."
Duru was stunned for a moment, then climbed up the treetop in threes and jumped onto the gondola.
At this time, Angel looked at the girl below, and the girl looked at Angel not to be outdone.
Angel chuckled softly, dropped a black object from his bracelet, and landed straight towards her.
The girl was startled, thinking that the other party was trying to plot against her. She was about to run away, but she found that her body was suddenly restrained by a strange force, and she saw that the black thing was about to hit her.
face.
She screamed in fright.
But after a while, she found that nothing fell on top of her head. She took a sneak peek and saw a white fluffy fur floating in the air, and then slowly wrapped around her body.
The warmth enveloped her instantly.
At the same time, her body was able to move. She raised her head to look for the flying boat in the sky, but the flying boat had disappeared.
On the other side, gondola.
Dulu asked curiously: "Why do you suddenly care about that girl?"
"As a man, when you see a trembling lady, shouldn't you be more gentle?" Angel raised his eyebrows.
"Uh... I just think your behavior seems a bit inconsistent. Could it be that this is the one you like?" Duru murmured in a low voice.
Angel said angrily: "Didn't you see that the girl is pregnant with a child? Looking at the size, she is probably about to give birth. In this deep mountain and forest, and it is so cold, this is the only way I can help.
Some."
"Pregnant with a child?" Dulu was stunned. He recalled the previous scene. The other party had indeed been covering his belly. At that time, her belly was bulging. He thought it was a package, but it turned out to be a pregnant woman!
Thinking about it this way, her cautious behavior just now makes sense. After all, she is a pregnant woman, so it is normal for her not to want others to get close to her.
"But what's a little strange is, why would a pregnant woman appear here alone at this point?" Dulu asked doubtfully.
In fact, the strange thing is not just what Duru said. Angel can hear the accent of the girl just now, which is a very orthodox golden bird noble pronunciation. Judging from the delicateness of her skin and the piercings in her ears,
It can be seen that this girl is most likely to be born into a noble family.
It is rare for a noble girl to be in such a state of poverty.
However, Angel had no intention of exploring.
When Duru was still talking about the strangeness, Angel whispered: "Just go to the southeast where she pointed and you will know."
Angel had not forgotten the hatred and anger that flashed in her eyes when she was giving directions.
Angel estimated that this girl was using them as gunmen, and there might be her enemies in the southeast, or people who were chasing her. However, he didn't care, he was just asking for directions anyway.