Old Hope Town, a quarter past one o'clock in the afternoon.

Like a weathered traveler, Downey stepped into this town hidden in the mountains.

There are no coal mines, no metal minerals, so the railway has never been connected to the outside world, only a few roads built by the townspeople themselves.

Fortunately, the Thundering Church and other churches of gods and spirits about the power of thunder and lightning have completely laid out the power grid in order to let the world feel the greatness of electricity, and Old Hope Town is no exception.

Dead bodies hung from the dry apple trees outside Old Hope, and the cries of crows or other scavenging birds echoed.

If Donnie hadn't seen the farmer in his wagon on the way, he wouldn't have chosen to walk into the town.

Perhaps it was the death of so many people in the disaster decades ago, and the lingering gloom of Old Hope town.

In Downey's opinion, this place is no longer suitable for human habitation, and at least the Church of the Gods with the authority of light should send someone here to cleanse it.

There were pedestrians passing by on the side of the street, and there was no smile on everyone's face.

When Donnie left the Spirit Realm, both Ogden and the nearby town were garrisoned by heavily armed Union soldiers, which is why Downey came to this town. He needed a place to rest, at least to restore the spirituality and magic he had consumed before he could go to other cities.

Judging by the distance, the old town of Hope is no longer part of Ogden, and perhaps that's why there are no agents and troops stationed here.

Judging from the external situation of Old Hope Town, there must be some hidden secrets in this town.

But Donnie is just a passer-by and is not interested in the secrets of this town.

No one came to interrogate Donnie about anything, and there was not much time, so he came to a bar.

It's also the only pub in Old Hope and a hostel.

Donnie hadn't been drinking, and now he was in desperate need of regaining his magic, and the loss of spirit was causing a lot of discomfort in his head.

Old Hope was quite tolerant of outsiders, and no one gave Donnie a second glance from beginning to end.

Walking into the room upstairs of the bar, the sense of urgency that had been lingering in Downey's heart was still there.

This feeling is strongest in the dream of the fallen god, where Donnie leaves the dream and enters the spirit realm, and from the spirit realm back to reality, but the urgency that should have disappeared does not dissipate.

This means that Downey is most likely not completely out of danger by now, so Downey does not plan to spend the night in this town, but plans to rent a carriage and set off after a few hours of rest.

Two hours later, Downey was detached from a meditative state.

Snowflakes were falling outside the window, and Donnie moved his stiff body to pack his things and go downstairs.

The patrons of the bar have all left, and the only thing left in the dark bar is the bored bartender behind the counter.

The bartender is characteristic, with one eye and one hand, and a metal prosthesis on the severed arm.

Downey told the bartender about his desire to get a carriage out of town, but the bartender didn't say anything right away, and after a while said in a hoarse voice, "I suggest you don't leave the town for a while, at least until tonight is over." ”

The bartender, with a little graying hair, said it very seriously, and it didn't look like he was trying to keep people.

"Have a glass of flame wine, can you tell me more about what's wrong with leaving now?"

Downey didn't ask this to satisfy his curiosity, but to worry that something that wouldn't have happened would have come about because of his arrival.

Normally, this kind of thing doesn't happen, but Donnie already has no hope for his luck...

The bartender frowned, and said a little perfunctorily: "There's nothing wrong with it, it's just that the mountains are difficult to walk and the roads are not easy to walk." ”

As he spoke, he pushed a glass of orange-red wine in front of Donnie.

"If you're going to leave, I'll tell you where the wagon is rented, but I'll warn you beforehand that Old Peake is closed now."

Hearing this, Donnie raised his head and looked at the bartender and said, "I can see that you are an old hunter, an ordinary hunter in Sequence 1, who can gain extraordinary power through prey, right?" ”

The bartender was startled by Donnie's dismissal, but he tried his best to suppress the fluctuations on his face, but his intact hand reached under the counter.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not interested in any of your plans, I just want to get out of here now."

Witchers - Gain supernatural powers through evil weirdness, and hunters gain power by hunting down the transcendents they 'mark'.

The Hunter's recipe is obviously more extensive, and even the Extraordinary can be labeled as 'Prey', but the boost is not as fast as the Witcher.

Since the Hunter Path did not have the ability to 'see through' at the beginning, it was impossible to glimpse the strangeness hidden in the crowd through sight, and the spiritual strength and spiritual development were also slow, so the number of people was slowly decreasing.

But no matter what, the number of Extraordinaries in the Hunter Path is still among the highest among all the Extraordinaire paths.

When Donnie walked into Old Hope, he barely used the Eye of Knowledge a few times, and after discovering that they were all ordinary people, he didn't use them again because he had more than a headache, until he used it again just now, and discovered the true identity of the bartender, and the identity of the person who gathered in the bar a few hours ago was not normal.

"You can't go!" The bartender said coldly, and at this moment he was pointing a large-caliber revolver at Donnie's head.

The barrel of the gun has patterned runes that allow the bullets fired by this gun to deal extraordinary damage to physical attacks that are ineffective.

“...”

Downey shook his head, and the hand of the wind grabbed the bartender by the neck and pulled him straight from behind the bar to the outside.

"Why is it so hard to talk well?!"

The spirit turned into an invisible slap and knocked the revolver away, and Donnie came to the bartender and said, "Could it be that there is some powerful weirdness in the Rocco Mountains?"

"Say! Where can I get a vehicle! "Donnie has had enough of walking on his own, and he's going to take a mount next.

When you don't have the ability to teleport around the Federation, a mount can be useful.

The hunter bartender clearly had no intention of fighting Downey to the end, and he pointed to the bar, where Downey found a car key.

If you can't get a carriage, you can drive it.

Donnie knocked the bartender unconscious, threw him behind the bar, and made his way to the back of the bar.

The hunter's bartender's car was parked here, a pickup truck that was even more dilapidated than the one Donnie drove out of Oakford, and it looked as if it was about to be scrapped at any moment.

Donnie checked it, it should be no problem to drive away, it's not far from Pokazi City, even if you drive out for a while, it's worth breaking down.

"You should take this as a lesson in not being good at talking!"

The pickup truck smoked black smoke and drove out of Old Hope Town.