Chapter 198, the way home
Just as Klose was wandering alone on the streets of Sancha Town, Diana and Lana, who appeared out of nowhere, had already quietly walked behind him.
The red-haired Lana slapped Klose on the shoulder, scaring him out.
"You crazy woman! What did you do with my dragon? ”
Klose was not angry when he saw her, this guy acted in too out-of-the-box style, and sometimes he couldn't keep up with the rhythm of the other party's conversations with her.
But seeing Lana smile and didn't say anything: "We're just going to get something that only women understand~"
Klose scratched his head in confusion, "Between women.... Could it be this guy's aunt here? ”
Thinking of this, he dragged Lana to the corner of the street.
Like a thief, Klose took out a bag of things from his bosom and handed it to the other party.
Lana took it and looked at it suspiciously, it was a boxy translucent bag, with a smooth surface and some beautiful patterns printed on it.
"What is this?"
Lana asked.
Klose scratched his ears and cheeks and explained, "This... It's just for you women for those days of the month! Very easy to use, just need this.... Down a pad. ”
Klose said, gesticulating a gesture.
Lana was so clever that she could guess the other person's thoughts just by his simple action. And this genius girl instantly went from cheeks to ears, and from ears to the base of her neck.
She screamed and threw the bag right in Klose's face.
"What's going on in your head all day!? A sucker! ”
Klose picked up his aunt's towel in confusion and muttered in a low voice: "It's not bad luck, look at this grumpy." ”
Now that the two daughters have returned, it is time for them to officially set off on the road and go home.
called the reluctant big pig, and several people left Sancha Town all the way south.
Since it was the way back, it felt like time passed quickly, and it only took less than half a day for them to see the Solid Shield Fortress standing on the Silver Moon River.
The fortress seems to have remained unchanged for thousands of years, standing quietly on both sides of the Silver Moon River.
But when the few people arrived here again, Klose felt like a world away.
I thought that the last time he passed by here, he was still with Falck and Ward. And here he also encountered an ambush, if it weren't for the role of the spokesman of the dead, I'm afraid he would be cold.
The silence around the Shield Fortress was terrifying, almost audible of a pin drop. Rumors of haunting are so frequent that the area is uninhabited for miles, and few hunters and adventurers are willing to traverse the haunted fortress alone. Most of them will choose to hire a ferry boat to cross the Silvermoon River to the Misty Lands.
However, Klose was intimate as he approached the mottled tournament. Because at the moment when he just walked into the gate of the fortress, two rows of skeletons were already standing neatly inside the gate, bowing down to welcome his arrival.
No way, who let him live in his body now? This is the big man's territory, and these dead skeletons are his most loyal subordinates. Isn't seeing yourself the same as seeing their master?
Lana was frightened by the bones at first! When she saw that so many skeletons were saluting her little lord, she was so interested that she instantly forgot how to write the word fear.
I saw that this bold red-haired girl also stretched out her finger and poked the eye socket of the skeleton closest to him.
She smiled excitedly: "Hey~ These skeletons really move themselves!" My little lord, how did you do that? ”
Klose smiled and said, "The master of the ability is so born with the aura of a king~~ Everywhere he goes, he bows down to him!" ”
Lana squinted her eyes and pouted, "Can we be serious?" ”
The little lord was speechless for a while: "Okay.... Actually, it's like this...."
He roughly described the ambush he encountered here, how to resolve it, and how to subdue these skeletons. Lana listened with relish, and her eyes lit up with gold.
She finally slapped herself on the thigh and said, "Great! Originally, I wanted to station an army here, but now I don't even have manpower~~ Aren't these all ready-made soldiers? Moreover, these skeletons are notorious, and ordinary people dare not approach the Shield Fortress, so we can develop here! Moreover, it guards the Yinyue River and spans three places, which is definitely a rare northern bridgehead! ”
Klose had already walked to the front, and seeing that his Chancellor of the Exchequer was still alone and whispering, he turned his head and said, "Hey~~ Are you still leaving?" What is that person muttering? ”
Lana agreed, hurrying to follow.
This time through the Shield Fortress was very smooth, and when these people left the fortress in a pig cart, Lana poked her head out and looked back, only to see that the gap in the fortress was densely packed with many skeletal and white bone heads! It seems to be looking at his side.
That scene.... How weird and weird! Think about what it's like to be gazed at affectionately by thousands of dead heads?
Leaving the Stronghold Fortress, the pig cart galloped down a relatively gentle dirt road. Large tracts of land here are deserted, uninhabited, and uncultivated.
Na saw it in her eyes and hurt in her heart! Such a nice place has been abandoned to this day? If they don't take this place, they will be sorry for God's gift!
If food is grown here to form a scale, it will be more than enough to feed an army of tens of thousands of people! Not to mention its strategic significance.
With this in mind, the pig cart soon drove into Pumpkin Town's territory again.
Although Pumpkin Town, where the underground pharmaceutical factory was removed, was less gloomy, but I don't know if it was an illusion, Klose always felt that there were fewer people on the street than last time.
But inevitably, there are also more disabled homeless people on the street who cannot speak, hear, or see.
The victims of persecution, who have no families and are left to beggars on the streets, have no hope of making a living.
Klose looked a little strange, he remembered that the people who had not been claimed at that time had already asked Diana to take them back to the castle? Why are there so many beggars now? It seems that this is also the reason why these people's families give up on them because of their physical disabilities.
The pig cart makes its way east of Pumpkin Town into the town, and their whereabouts are quickly discovered by the town's mayor.
A servant stumbled into the mayor's second-story building, nervously shouting, "The mayor... Mayor Town! Oh no! That... The man in the pig cart is back! ”
"What!?"
Mayor Blicek was hiding in his bedroom counting the coins in his hand, but he was bumped into by a stupid servant who suddenly broke in, and immediately became angry, raised his fist and punched and kicked the visitor.
The man ran around with his head in his hands, and kept saying, "The town chief is sorry!" But... But the man is back! ”
"The man? Which person? ”
The mayor was tired after fighting for a while, he wiped a fat forehead with a fat palm, looking at this unlucky subordinate, he had the heart to kill.
Without a trace, he kicked the box of coins under the bed with his foot, and then straightened his clothes and said, "What's the name of the ghost?" Who's coming? ”
"It's just... It's the same group of mercenaries who smashed the pharmaceutical factory last time! They're back! ”
The fat mayor's fat face trembled, and he opened a pair of small eyes, and grabbed the collar of the servant.
"Do you know what they're doing when they come back this time? How many people are there!? ”
The servant stammered, "I... I don't know what to do, but there's only one pig-pulled cart, and there are no more than four people in it, right? ”
Britzek let go of his servant's collar, his little eyes rolled wildly, and he muttered, "Is it just passing by?" But the lord said, these are dangerous people! ..... Send someone to watch them! If they're going to spend the night here tonight, keep an eye on me! Then come back and report! ”
"Huh....? Be... Be! Mayor Town! ”
The servant turned to leave, and Britzek fumbled with his smooth, fat three-layered chin, and a ghost idea rose in his mind.
He thought to himself, if these mercenaries encounter a pumpkin ghost at night and are unfortunately killed.... This shouldn't have anything to do with you, right?
Yes, the destruction of the underground pharmaceutical factory did not stop the legend of the pumpkin ghost in the pumpkin formation from continuing to spread. Because some people claim to have seen people with pumpkin heads wandering around the fields at night, but rubbing their eyes and looking at them again, they can't see anything. That's why the townsfolk here are convinced that the Pumpkin Ghost has always existed! Although the bad guys had pretended to be it before, the real Pumpkin Ghost seemed to linger like a thick fog over Pumpkin Town.
It has also been suggested that the so-called pumpkin ghost is actually the patron saint of the town! Yes, some people have raised this question, the pumpkin ghost may be protecting the town, which is why the mercenaries are attracted to capture the bad guys.
Some townspeople even carved hollowed-out pumpkins into the shape of a human head at the door of their homes, saying that they were used for town homes. As a result, many townspeople are now vying to follow suit.
Pumpkin Town now sees dead human heads carved out of pumpkins everywhere at night. In addition, I don't know which damn guy was the first to light a candle in the pumpkin head, so the starry dead man's head is still bubbling with ghost fire, if you walk on the streets of Pumpkin Town at night, people who don't know the truth will definitely be scared by this scene!
As for Klose, the first person he visited after coming to Pumpkin Town was of course Old Bill's house~
Anyway, Ian is now a classmate with him from the same school, and Ian also said when he was suspended from school that he would go home to spend time with the old man.