Spring is bright, and the noon sun is soft and warm. But the sight in front of him made DURU's heart cold.
He had seen smoke rising before and thought it was a smoke.
Come and see with gondola. It's really crowded. At the source of the smoke is a small village outside the forest, but there is no living person in the village at this time.
More than ten houses had been burned out by the fire. The fire has disappeared, leaving only smoke.
As for the villagers.
DURU looked at the mortal corpses hanging on the wooden stakes in every house, and his eyes flashed shock and anger.
The body of the man was cut off with all his limbs, cut into a stick and inserted on a stake. Women are naked, rifled and stacked at will. The most chilling thing for DURU was that there were children's bodies everywhere, both men and women, and their clothes were all lying down and dirty all over.
No one was alive. They were all corpses with great resentment.
Some people's eyes are not even closed, and the look of resentment and curse has not disappeared before their pupils diverge. It was creepy for DURU to see.
He has seen dead people, whether they are corpses with only heads eaten by sea animals, or soldiers divided into corpses on the battlefield; Even, he saw a ghoul eating in baibeihai City, which was kept by an adult wizard.
But not once did it make him feel so angry.
He squatted in front of a house that had been burned into a black charcoal frame. In front of him was the body of a smelly boy. His eyes were not closed and he looked at the sky. His pale cheeks were covered with the ashes of the burning house, but there was a white line from the corner of his eyes to his auricles.
DURU can even think of the picture at that time. Before the boy died, he cried silently. His tears crossed the corners of his eyes and fell on his ears, leaving this light white line.
Trudeau gasped and reached out to touch the boy's eyes.
"Sleep, in another world, you will be happy." DURU whispered softly, and the boy's eyes closed with the touch of his palm.
"The world is the worst, but people's hearts." Angel stood behind DURU and sighed softly, "from a certain point of view, man is actually a beast. He thinks he has a clear ID and is detached from the beast; but sometimes what he does is even more crazy than the beast that follows the primitive instinct."
DURU looked angrily, "Lord pat, do you know who did it?"
"I don't know. The fire annihilated all traces."
DURU was silent for a moment. "Sir, I want to bury them. Can I? It's cold in spring and the bones sleep in the open. They should be very cold."
"They are dead." Angel would like to continue saying that after death, people have no soul and no natural light, and the body is a useless skin bag. Besides, they have nothing to do with you.
But he didn't say what he didn't say, just nodded and let DURU do it.
He can guide DURU how to face the cold winter in the wizard world, but DURU didn't want to intervene in his own good and evil camp and how to deal with people.
Perhaps, in the future, DURU will become a black wizard or a white wizard. When he recalls this experience, will he dislike or sigh? Or ridicule yourself for being stupid?
Angel stood quietly to one side without interfering with DURU's movements.
He was willing to let DURU spend time doing it, in fact, because he was a little homesick. Before returning to the old land, he wanted to fly back immediately. But the closer he was to his hometown, he was a little timid.
The village is small and there are not many people.
Angel threw a handy smelting hoe to DURU. It took him a long time to dig out a big pit.
When DURU covered the soil, it was almost dusk.
Dulu took a handful of white flowers in his hand and put them in front of the pit. He stood silently for a long time until the sunset dyed his pupils light red and the evening wind rolled up the petals. He came to angel and apologized in a low voice.
"I'm too willful to waste adults' time."
"Whether you are willful or not, you can judge by yourself after you really set foot in the wizard world." Angel first turned around and took out gondola: "let's go. Before night falls, find the crowd and ask about the current position."
After returning to gondola, DURU was obviously more depressed than before. After being silent for a long time, he suddenly asked, "Sir, will wizards do this kind of village killing?"
"Yes." And harder than you think.
Angel's answer flashed a trace of sadness in DURU's eyes.
"A wizard is also a human being. The root of human evil will have corresponding performance no matter what class he is in. It's just a whitewash or an explicit difference." Angel paused: "however, because the class gap is too large. Wizards are like clouds and mud to mortals. Therefore, if mortals do not provoke wizards, wizards will not deliberately deal with mortals. This is the default rule of the wizard world. After all, the backbone of wizards should be born from mortals."
"On the contrary, there is no burden among mortals and they are keen on internal struggle."
At the end of the topic, DURU took charge of gondola and continued to move towards the interior of the mainland, while angel leaned against the side of the ship and looked at the distant mountains and forests dyed red by the sunset with nostalgia in his eyes.
Angel had planned to find people before nightfall. But unfortunately, when the stars rose at night, they did not find any trace of the living.
"Looks like we're going the wrong way." Angel yawned: the small village should not be an independent village. There must be towns nearby, so they chose to go along the road outside the small village.
However, the village finally leads to the mountain forest. There is no fixed path in the mountain forest, so they chose a direction at will. Unexpectedly, they flew nearly a thousand miles and saw no trace of people.
"Shall we go back? If we do our best, we'll be there soon." DURU inquired. Previously, in order to find human traces, they flew very low and slow, so they flew such a short distance for a long time.
"Do it yourself."
DURU thought about it and decided to go back and choose another direction in the previous mountain forest.
But just as he turned around, an orange red light suddenly appeared in the dark forest in the distance.
"Fire? Are there people in the forest at night?" DURU suddenly remembered something: "is it the forest keeper?"
Thinking of this, DURU immediately flew to the fire with gondola.
When the flying boat fell, I found that it was not a so-called forest keeper, but a girl wrapped in a layer of animal skin and shivering in front of the campfire.
Their landing filled the girl's eyes with fear and a trace of curiosity.
She had never seen a ship that could fly in the sky, and the ship was so beautiful that she wondered their identity when she was afraid of the newcomers.
DURU took the lead in jumping off the boat, jumped onto the big tree, slid down the trunk and fell in front of the girl.
"Don't be afraid, we're just..." DURU thought for a long time, and finally had a flash of inspiration: "travelers, we are travelers. We won't hurt you. I just want to ask the way."
DURU's words did not resonate with the girl. She still watched Dulu warily, covering the package in her arms with one hand and waving a dagger with the other.
"Well, I won't go there. Just ask here, okay?" DURU sighed, "where is this? How far is it from the nearest town? Which direction should we go?"
DURU's question made the girl pause a little before slowly opening her mouth: "I don't believe you. Go away immediately! If you want to find someone, go over there..."
The girl points to the southeast.
"Is that the town? What's the name of the country we're in now?"
The girl no longer answered, just holding the package and staring at DURU.
DURU doesn't know what to do. Why, does he have to deal with a woman? At a loss, angel's voice came down: "DURU, come up."
DURU was stunned. He climbed up the treetop and jumped onto gondola.
Angel looked down at the girl at this time, and the girl was unwilling to show weakness and looked at angel.
Angel smiled softly, dropped a black thing from the bracelet and fell straight towards her.
The girl was startled and thought that the other party was going to plot against him. She was about to run away, but she found that her body was suddenly bound by a strange force. She saw that the dark thing was about to hit her face.
She screamed with fear.
But after a while, she found nothing on her head. She glanced secretly, but saw a White Velvet fur floating in the air, and then slowly wrapped her body.
Warmth wrapped her in an instant.
At the same time, her body can play. She looked up to look for the flying boat in the sky, but the flying boat had disappeared.
On the other side, gondola.
DURU said curiously, "why do adults suddenly care about that girl?"
"Shouldn't a man be a gentleman when he sees a trembling lady?" Angel raised his eyebrows.
"Er... I just think the adult's behavior seems to be a little contrary to it? Do you think the adult likes this one?" DURU murmured.
Angel said angrily, "don't you see that the girl is pregnant with a child? Look at the size, it's estimated that she's about to give birth. It's so cold in the deep mountains and forests, so I can only help."
"Pregnant with a child?" DURU was stunned. He recalled the previous scene. The other party really kept covering his stomach. At that time, her stomach was bulging. He thought it was a package. As a result, she was a pregnant woman!
On this thought, her cautious behavior just now makes sense. After all, it's normal for pregnant women not to be close to others.
"But it's a little strange why a pregnant woman appears here alone at this point?" DURU wondered.
In fact, the strange place is not just what DURU said. Angel can hear the girl's accent just now, which is a very orthodox pronunciation of the Canary aristocracy. From the delicacy of her skin and the holes in her ears, it can be seen that the girl is most likely born of nobility.
It is rare for a noble girl to fall here.
However, angel has no intention to explore.
While DURU was still talking about strange things, angel whispered, "just go to the southeast she refers to."
Angel didn't forget the hatred and anger that flashed in her eyes when she showed the way before.
Angel estimated that the girl was shooting them, and there were her enemies in the southeast, or those who were chasing her. However, he doesn't care. He just asks for directions anyway.