Thor followed the mountain movers along the road and into the nearby ancient forest of survivors.
However, the mountain climber took a slight detour and avoided the place where the seven blindfolded ordinary people had appeared.
Thor followed him all the way into the woods and halfway up the hillside.
Then the donkey carriage stopped and drove over the mountain. A man stood on the carriage and lifted up the black leather, and threw the boy on top under the roots of a big tree.
The donkey cart started again, leaving the motionless boy where he was, and continued deep into the ancient forest.
But Thor stopped following, and his footsteps stayed beside the boy.
He squatted down and looked through the boy's mouth, nose, and eyelids, and finally found a wooden thorn half a finger long on the back of the boy's neck.
The wooden thorns penetrated shallowly into the skin and hung there.
He pulled out the wooden thorn, smelled the smell on it, and showed a faint smile.
"Is this how they use this to disguise people into suspended animation?"
"Is this an underground trade? If someone discovers it, it can easily turn people into real deaths."
Thor looked at the boy's hands and feet again.
Although the other person was only eleven or twelve years old, his hands were full of calluses and he had obviously been working a lot.
Looking at it, Sol said "Huh".
He reached up and squeezed the boy's skull and spine, "This boy has been forced to grow."
Although the boy looked to be in his teens, his actual age was probably only seven or eight years old.
He is like the wheat seedlings in the field, being encouraged by others!
After Sol's troubles, the boy still didn't wake up.
If he continues like this, he will go from fake death to real death.
"It seems that people who do this business don't care much about the survival rate of the goods."
The bearded man used some connection to send the boy completely out of the settlement by feigning death. And the mountain climber and the old flowerpot man guarding the gate should both know about this.
They turn a blind eye and most likely benefit from this approach.
Judging from their current indifference to the boy, they already have vested interests, so naturally they don't need to pay too much attention to the entrusted goods.
Life and death depend on fate.
In other words, it would be best to die.
No hidden dangers will be left.
Seeing the life in the boy's body gradually disappearing, Thor suddenly raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and a healing spell fell, causing the boy who was about to enter the ravine of death to suddenly open his eyes.
"Cough cough cough cough... cough cough cough..."
As soon as he opened his eyes, the boy coughed violently and crawled back from the death level, causing considerable damage to his body.
When the boy finally regained his breath, he saw a man wearing a wizard's robe squatting next to him in his peripheral vision.
Facing Thor, who had just saved his life, the boy had a look of horror in his eyes.
He subconsciously crawled backwards, trying to stay away from Thor, but he slammed into the big tree behind him.
A few pieces of dead branches and leaves fell from the head.
"Don't be afraid, there's no point in being afraid. I'll ask, you answer?"
The boy's back was firmly pressed against the big tree behind him. He struggled to slide his throat and swallowed, but his mouth was so dry that it hurt.
After a moment, he regained his composure and nodded.
He stared at Sol like a little rabbit just out of the nest.
"Is that bearded man your father?"
The boy hesitated.
"I'll kill you if you lie." Thor's voice did not fluctuate at all.
Faced with such a death threat, the boy did not have the fear and panic he had when he just found Thor standing next to him.
"Yes."
"When I came here, I saw you running away, but the people behind you held you down and nailed two holes in your feet. What were you doing?"
"They said I was old enough to make a meat nest. I saw, I saw the boy in front of me had holes drilled in the soles of his feet, and two ants were put in, and he screamed in pain. I, I was very scared, so Ran out."
"What's going on with this wood thorn?"
Thor held the wooden thorn he had pulled from the back of the boy's neck up to the boy's face.
The boy looked at Mu Ci blankly and shook his head.
"Then why were you thrown out again?"
The boy thought for a moment.
"After I was taken back, they put an ant on the sole of my foot. But as soon as the ant crawled into the sole of my foot, I fainted from the pain and didn't know what happened."
"Oh, your father found someone to secretly send you out. Didn't he give you instructions on how to live after leaving the gathering place?"
The boy still looked confused, but everyone could clearly hear his suddenly accelerated heartbeat.
"Sure enough, all the real Silly Baitian would have died long ago if they lived in a place like this." Sol shook his head in his heart.
He did not continue to dwell on the problem. I just said this just to tell the boys that I have caught your pigtails and it’s time to ask some in-depth questions.
"What is the Meat Nest?"
"Does this settlement not allow ordinary people inside to leave?"
"After the wizards here come in, do many of them leave?"
The boy answered some questions, while others just shook his head and said he didn't know.
After almost drying up the information in the boy's mind, Thor stood up again.
He looked at the boy leaning weakly on the big tree, took out some food from the storage and threw it on him.
The small package that the boy's father gave to the mountain climber was probably the food intended for the boy.
It's just that the mountain climber didn't intend to let the boy survive, so he naturally found the food in the package.
"This is your reward for answering my questions. Of course, if you tell the truth, you can get more."
After speaking, Thor turned around and prepared to continue into the mountain.
He was going to find some Toto termites.
If the termite formic acid can really produce a magical drug that has no side effects and can put wizards into a state of high-speed brain operation, it will definitely become a rare witchcraft material in the future and be competed by many wizards.
It would be better for him to start researching now.
It's just that since this humpback termite is so magical, it must be guarded by someone. Thor had to be careful not to miss his tracks, lest he be targeted by the second-level wizards in the settlement.
As soon as Sol took two steps, he heard the boy behind him calling him.
"Master Wizard, please wait a moment."
Thor stopped and looked back.
"Sir, can I, can I..."
"No." Thor knew what the boy wanted to ask, but he refused without hesitation.
When he just checked the boy's body, he found that the boy's mental and physical body had been damaged for a long time.
Let alone becoming an apprentice, it is difficult to even live healthily to the age of twenty.
Unless he can have the opportunity of being a good-for-nothing protagonist and encounter some kind of heavenly and earthly treasure, the I Ching cleanses the marrow, ah no, it should be said to reorganize the spiritual body, awaken the magic talent, and amplify the elemental perception, otherwise he will not even learn a little bit. There is no chance.
The boy originally wanted to fight for it again, but as soon as he raised his head, he met Thor's eyes as calm as the deep sea. The plea in his mouth could not come out.
"He's quite smart, it's a pity." Seeing that the boy was not interested and did not continue to plead, Thor turned and left.
He walked forward in the forest and released the small algae.
"Be careful not to disturb the people and creatures here."
Xiaowei jumped to the ground, burrowed under the soil, and disappeared.
About half an hour later, he suddenly emerged again, and black tentacles circled Thor's ankles.
Sol followed Xiaozao's strength and walked forward silently.
Not long after, he saw several familiar figures in the mountains and forests ahead.
They were several thin figures with black eyes covered and shackled feet.
The leader also carried a lantern and moved forward silently.
According to the boy, these people should be the meat nests used to collect formic acid.
Thor quickly walked around in front of these seven people, only to find that these seven people were no longer the seven he had seen before.
"It seems that in this small settlement, most ordinary people are candidates for making meat nests."
(End of chapter)
