Chapter 153: A Little Life of Effort

Under the stammering explanation of the captain of the garrison, Rod finally figured out the girl's background

She is indeed a resident of Gaoya Village, and was born here. But unlike the others, the girl's origins are not the result of love, but the result of a horror story——— which was more than a decade ago, when there was a very beautiful girl in the village who was quite popular. Many young men have had a crush on her, but the girl doesn't seem to feel much about these young men's displays of affection, and always refuses to end with them. And when the girl grows up and reaches the age of talking about marriage, her parents also begin to be anxious, urging their daughter to find a good husband as a home. But the girl's answer surprised many people.

"I already have someone I love."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone couldn't help but be dumbfounded, they all knew the girl's life very well, she didn't even come out of this village on weekdays, but she had already rejected the overtures of all the young people in the village, logically speaking, she shouldn't have anyone she liked. But now the girl suddenly said this, which shocked her parents, and they couldn't believe their daughter's words, so they asked her to say each other's name. But the girl, who has always been docile and obedient, is uncharacteristically at this time and insists on not saying the other party's name. In desperation, her parents had no choice but to lock the girl in the house and prevent her from going out.

But just after that, weird things happened.

Although they locked their daughter in the room, but every night when the night fell, their daughter suddenly disappeared, no matter how they searched, they could not find it, at first they thought that their daughter was angry and ran away from home, so they hurriedly mobilized the whole village to search everywhere. But nothing came of it, and when they dragged their tired bodies home, they found their daughter sleeping quietly in her bed, as if she had never left. And when they woke up their daughter, the other party also said that he had been sleeping at home all the time and had never gone out at all.

The two old men also felt that they might have made a mistake, but then this kind of thing happened again and again, which made them panic, and in the end they had no choice but to find a respected bishop in the neighborhood to come and check, and the bishop after careful inspection, but said a result that made everyone's eyes black.

This girl is possessed by the devil!

This shocked many people, they couldn't figure out how the girl was possessed by the devil, but in any case, the incident itself was not fiction, and in the end, they could only hope that the bishop could help them and drive away the devil from the girl.

But what happened after that, no one knows what happened.

The only thing that was known was that early the next morning, when the villagers gathered again at the girl's door, all they saw was the charred black of the entire house as if it had been burned by flames, and the bodies of the bishop and the two old men, who had been horrible. The girl was covered in blood and slept quietly among the corpses.

The villagers were at a loss for what to do, and when they woke up, the girl became crazy, biting like a mad wild dog. In desperation, everyone had to lock her in the cellar in the village and think of another way.

But from this day on, the girl's belly began to grow bigger day by day.

She is expecting.

Three months later, the girl gave birth to a baby girl, but she seemed to have exhausted all her vitality, and when the villagers followed the baby's cries to the cellar, all they saw was the girl's completely rotten, black, and foul-smelling corpse. ..., of course, no one wanted to adopt this baby, and they were afraid of encountering the same thing as the old couple, so they naturally avoided it. At first, they chose to throw the baby into the mountains and leave her to fend for herself, but strange things happened again. When they open the door the next day, they see the baby again in the middle of the square, still alive.

This made the villagers more and more afraid, they wanted to kill her, but they were also afraid of being cursed, and everyone pushed back, but no one was willing to do it, they had all seen the terrible scene of the old man's tragic death, and no one wanted the same scene to be played out in their own homes. In the end, it was the old village chief who stood up and adopted the baby.

As the girl grew older, the villagers' fear of her deepened rather than diminished. Because she had never learned to write, she was able to write a beautiful hand, her voice was crisp and beautiful, but occasionally she could speak something that no one could understand. This further deepened the villagers' fear of the monster, and they saw her as a scourge, allowing her to live in the abandoned cellar of the village, while also preventing their children from coming into contact with the girl. In their minds, this terrible girl will one day become like her mother.

"I see."

Hearing the introduction of the garrison captain, Rhodes frowned, and Marlene and Anne next to him also had unkind faces, the former, as a mage, naturally expressed disdain and anger at the ignorant behavior of the villagers. The latter is empathetic——— she is also a child who was also abandoned in the mountains and grew up with wild beasts, so Anne can understand the girl's feelings very well. She puffed up her cheeks and looked angrily at the captain of the garrison in front of her, her eyes as sharp as a beast. And the latter lowered his head under her gaze, and he didn't dare to take a breath in the air.

Lijie clasped her hands to her chest, lowered her head, and prayed in a low voice, not knowing what she was talking about.

"So, what's the deal with the mask on her face?"

Rod thought for a moment, then continued to ask.

"This one...... This one............ According to the village chief, this girl is very weird, since a few days ago, she has always said something inexplicable, incomprehensible and creepy, such as something 'you are being targeted' or something like that......... Then the people she said were inexplicably attacked by the undead after that, and everyone thought that she was the ghost, so everyone summed it up, and then made such a mask to put on her face, so that she had no way to speak, so that the undead would not attack again. ”

"Isn't it useless?"

Marlene snorted coldly and interrupted the captain of the garrison.

"If it helps, we don't need to come, do we?"

In the face of Marlene's sarcasm, the captain of the garrison couldn't say anything, so he could only smile and bow his head deeply.

"That is, the mask was just used to stop her from talking? Is there any other use? ”

"No, there is no ........."

"Okay, I've got it."

Hearing this, Rod nodded, and then he held out his hand.

"So, bring the key."

"Huh?"

Hearing Rod's order, the captain of the garrison and the old village chief were stunned.

"Didn't you hear me? Bring the key, one of you must have a mask key. ”

"Here, but my lord, if that evil seed wants to curse everyone.........

"That's your problem, not mine, now, bring the key."

Rod's eyes turned cold.

"Or maybe I'll take it from your corpse." ..., the threat of nakedness.

Hearing this, the old village chief's body couldn't help but tremble, and then he hurriedly reached into his arms and respectfully took out a small copper key. Rod took the key, then turned and handed it to Marlene, who was beside him.

"Go and take off the girl's mask and give her something to eat."

After that, according to Rod's order, the old village chief took out the tavern in the village as a temporary station for the mercenary group, and Rhodes and the mercenaries are currently living here, and the girl they met in the wild was also brought over, obviously, after seeing the attitude of the villagers here towards the girl, neither Rhodes nor the three girls were worried about her leaving their sight.

"Good, Mr. Rhodes."

Marlene took the key, hurriedly stood up, nodded to Rod and quickly left, while Anne and Lijie glanced at each other and followed Marlene out of the alley. They don't have any good feelings about dealing with these nasty people, and now that they have the opportunity to leave, they naturally don't want to stay here longer.

For a moment, only Rhodes, who was sitting leisurely in a chair, and Celia, who was standing quietly behind him, were silent in the tavern hall. In front of him, there were sweaty old men and the captain of the garrison.

In fact, what convinced them of Rod's identity was the angel girl standing behind him at this moment, her white wings slowly spreading, emitting a soft glow in the sunlight cast from the window. That alone is enough to make mortals shy away.

"Alright, let's talk about the undead......... Or rather, is there anything else you can do? ”

Rod looked at the old village chief with an indifferent expression.

"This ......"

Hearing Rod's inquiry, the old man who was looking up at Rhodes trembled violently, he lowered his head, then was silent for a moment, gritted his teeth again, and raised his head.

"This ...... Honorable Lord, I ask you to forgive me for my rudeness......... Excuse me, where are you from? ”

"Northern Mountains."

Rod replied casually, and then he raised his eyebrows, and his face became a little more impatient.

"Any questions?"

"No, no, no, no."

The old man bowed his head again.

"It's just......... That one...... Has anyone in your family ever been here? ”

"Nope."

Rod snorted coldly, and he felt more and more that the old man's inquiry was really boring.

"Is that all there is to you?"

"Yes, I'm sorry............"

Hearing this, the old man wiped his cold sweat and took a few steps back, not knowing what Lu Dao was thinking. Rhodes watched him carefully for a moment, then turned his head to look at the captain of the guard.

"Alright, let's talk about the undead."

Then, he spoke.

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