No hotel? Wu Ming was stunned, how could it be possible? We did stay in a hotel in the town last night, and the first floor of the hotel is the tavern in the town. However, the landlady said that after the flute player came, the business at her place got a lot worse, and no one came to patronize it anymore.
Then he briefly explained to the mayor his experience after coming to the town, and how he was recruited to stay in the hotel by the hotel proprietress. After quietly listening to the other party's story, Rogge said in a very strange way Looking at him with an expression on his face, as far as I know, at least in the years since I took office, no one has opened a tavern or hotel in this town. This town is very closed to begin with. Almost no outsiders come here, so how could there be a hotel to entertain guests?
As for the tavern, although there is no custom or ban on alcohol in the town, most residents do not have the time or financial resources to gather together to drink. They spend most of their day working to maintain a self-sufficient life, and the town’s The residents are not very rich either. Even after the town was electrified and communication with the outside world was strengthened, there are still many families who do not have access to electricity, so as you said, go to the pubs filled with all kinds of wine. There is no such thing as drinking.
Are you sure you are really staying in a hotel? I have been in the town for several days, but I have never seen anything like a hotel in the town. Anna also spoke at the right time and said.
Feeling the deep doubts clearly revealed in the eyes of Anna and Rogge, Wu Ming also keenly felt that something was wrong, but in order to further verify, he still asked: "We are sure we are staying in a hotel. According to what the landlady said, , the first floor is where the townspeople usually drink and brag. There are only four rooms on the second floor and we happened to live in one each. As for the address, it should be in
Wu Ming told Rogge the location of the hotel based on his impression of the distribution of buildings in the town, and also described the appearance and attire of the landlady in detail. But after hearing the location of the hotel, the mayor of the town frowned even more. He shook his head very firmly: There is no hotel there. Not only is there no hotel, but there should be a long-abandoned house there, probably. After the last woman in the family passed away due to a serious illness more than a hundred years ago, no one inherited the house, and the house became empty.
Anna was reminded like this, as if she was remembering something: It turns out that there was a long-abandoned house. When I hid in the town and quietly investigated, I also found out more or less information about the witch, but many townspeople only He keeps secret about that house and keeps silent about it. That house is also related to the witch, right?
Rogge turned to look at Anna. He didn't expect this outsider to be so keen. He nodded: Yes, that family is related to a witch that once existed in the town, but for many reasons, including the fact that the town will become what it is today. This is why most people are reluctant to mention the name and deeds of this witch.
It was related to a witch story in the town. The residents were unwilling to talk about it. Wu Ming narrowed his eyes and a thoughtful look appeared on his face. He couldn't help but think of those witch stories told by the landlady before. A terrible conclusion was coming to his mind. I thought in my mind that I had heard some stories about witches before, but judging from the times, it is unlikely that the owner of that house was the property left by the original witch.
May the boss lady be the witch who made the town suffer the eternal curse of the witch? !
Is there a witch hiding in the dark in this town? !
The girl who yearned for the outside world and wanted to escape from Melas Town ultimately failed to escape from hell.
Not long after she fled the town with her clothes, she was caught by the townspeople who came later and took her back. The cognitive modifications Wu Ming had set before leaving had begun to loosen, and as the townspeople became more and more enthusiastic about the Witch Trial, The situation became more and more precarious under the rising emotions, and several extremely excited townspeople had already broken free from the ideological seal set by Wu Ming.
In the next few days after she was brought back to the town, people formed a township court to interrogate the underage girl in turn. The townspeople made groundless accusations against her. In order to make Nina admit that she was a witch, They subjected her to unbearable lynching torture, making the still young girl feel like she was living in a real hell every minute and every second for the rest of her life.
Finally, after being tortured, Nina was sent to the stake by the excited townspeople.
The strong smoke made it harder and harder for her to breathe. The flames licked her wounds and skin that had festered and oozed from torture in the prison. The severe pain and suffocation brought her consciousness to the verge of collapse, and the sound of burning flames rang in her ears. There was a crackling sound, but the roar of the townspeople who wanted to burn the witch to death came from outside the flames, but it seemed to overwhelm the sound of the burning flames and passed directly into her mind.
Just like a dream Nina had once had, in the gradually spreading fire, she vaguely saw a black cat squatting in the flames, its spiritual eyes staring at her, as if witnessing her final moments. ending.
But what was different from the dream was that when Nina's consciousness was about to break and fall into darkness again, the black cat spoke.
It’s time to wake up from the dream. The black cat blinked his eyes with a faint light. What has happened cannot be changed. Even if you dream about that time, the established facts will not change because of your will. , now all the witch's power has been recovered by you, and you are the only one left to inherit the accumulated magic power of hundreds of years.
In an instant, the stakes, the blazing fire, the excited townspeople burst like broken mirrors, the crackle of burning wood, and the voices of people shouting to judge the witch were also quickly heard from Nina's ears. Go far away.
Everything shattered as if the illusion was shattered. The proprietress, who was lying on the bar of the tavern, supporting her head with her hands and falling into a light sleep, slowly opened her eyes. Magic lightning burst out from her eyes because of the excess magic power. On a table not far in front of her, there was a dark black cat sitting obediently. It was flicking its tail irritably, but when it saw the boss lady Nina waking up, its cat face actually showed He has a humane smile and speaks human words.
Come on, the obstacles are gone and the strongest witch is born! Nina, with the misfortune you have suffered, with the pain you have suffered, with the hatred and anger you have accumulated for more than a hundred years, with the blood and tears of countless witches who have been persecuted for hundreds of years, Use this huge magic power to change the world!
Lift the witch barrier. Now you no longer need that kind of thing to protect yourself.
At that moment, the entire town of Melas suddenly shook violently as if it was experiencing an eight-magnitude earthquake. The ground was as fragile as a piece of paper, and bottomless gaps were easily torn open by unimaginable force. , and soon the whole town experienced some extremely strange changes.
The already dilapidated houses in the town are being corroded by something at a speed visible to the naked eye. No, to be precise, it seems that the aging process of the building has suddenly accelerated, and it will take decades or even hundreds of years. The aging of buildings over the years is compressed into just a few minutes or even seconds.
It's like watching videos at 32x or even 64x speed.
The most obvious of these are wooden buildings. All the wooden structures in Melas town collapsed due to corrosion in just a few seconds, and soon turned into a pile of moss, green plants and fungi. of dead wood, and finally quickly return to the embrace of nature. Next are the houses with concrete and stone structures. After they were quickly covered with a large number of green plants, they were quickly turned into a pile of ruins in the dusty acceleration of time.
Not only the buildings, this strange flow of time also continues in other parts of the town. The already dilapidated cement roads in the town also rapidly experienced the growth of moss, growth of vegetation, and finally being destroyed in the same short period of time. In the process of being covered by low shrubs, the cultivated farmland also quickly fell into disuse and eventually became overgrown with weeds.
In just a few minutes, thanks to this abnormal time flow, this place turned from a border town that was a bit shabby but still inhabited by many people to a deserted place that looked like no one had set foot in it for a long time. of wild jungle.
Perhaps on the contrary, this may not be an abnormal passage of time, but a time balance phenomenon caused by objects that have been suspended at a certain time node and have stopped changing for a time, and return to normalcy again.
But in this process of constant change and degradation into a wild jungle, there has always been a building standing firm among more and more vegetation. That is the hotel where Wu Ming lived before. No matter how the vegetation grows, no matter how the building corrodes , damage, this hotel always seems to have not been affected in any way.
, not only does there not be any trace of damage or corrosion, even plants will not come close to it within ten meters.
It's as if there is some invisible force protecting this place.
A dazzling light suddenly appeared in front of the only building standing in the wild jungle. As the light ball burst, the figures of Wu Ming and four others slowly walked out.
The eldest brother Nina was standing at the door of the hotel waiting for them quietly. She had already changed out of her previous boss lady's outfit and put on a layered and complicated black dress. She looked mature and graceful. She looked from the light group. Wu Ming walked out slowly. She took off the scarf tied to her head. Her long golden chestnut hair spread out behind her like a waterfall. She showed a happy smile like a child receiving candy. You finally found me. But you're late, Nina, you've already recovered the magic power accumulated by past witches.
Big brother, you can't stop Nina anymore
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