Sean adjusted his gaze and looked towards the square.
Dark streets, black stone monuments, black ground...
At first, Sean thought he didn't see anything, so he frowned.
Suddenly, his brows opened, and his brain finally understood the scene printed on his eyes.
The square has a stone pavement, how could the ground be black?
The reason why it is black is because it is full of people wearing black robes.
Hundreds of people stood silently beside the black stone monument, all faces facing the stone monument...
No one spoke, not even a cough.
They were as quiet as the black leaves covering the square.
This strange scene made Sean have to look back at his companion.
Moonlight's eyes were full of surprise and confusion.
"Is there danger Sean?" Sensing Sean's inner fluctuations, Olivia, who had been in the next room, opened her red eyes in the darkness.
"Stand by for now," Sean felt his breathing and his heartbeat speeding up, "don't make any sound."
Turning his gaze back to the window, he wanted to figure out what those people in the square were doing.
Accompanied by the night wind, he heard someone in the square whispering the name on the stone tablet:
"Martha Connelly,
"Pete Larry...
…
His voice was so soft that the night wind easily blew it away.
After reading the names, people began to pass on something.
Likewise, they remained quiet while doing these things.
After a while, they squatted down and seemed to be eating something.
Sean squinted and saw that each of them was holding a piece of raw meat in their hands.
Hundreds of people were silently eating the raw meat of some animal in the middle of the night...
The sounds of them chewing raw meat came together through the window, making people's scalp numb and their teeth itching.
Sean lowered the curtains.
He looked wordlessly at Yue Guang, who had also seen the scene just now.
"What should we do?" Moonlight crouched in the darkness and vibrated the card and asked.
As elite explorers, they can rush to the scene to question the locals when they perform strange rituals...
Sean doesn't think there's an evil lurking in Jonyere that they can't suppress.
However, it would be foolish to act rashly before knowing the truth of the matter.
"Go back to sleep." Sean breathed out softly.
The two returned to their respective beds.
With their keen hearing, Moonlight and Sean heard the slight footsteps of people dispersing in the square.
They even heard someone downstairs opening the front door of the pub.
Moonlight and Sean looked at each other.
They remembered Mrs. Berg's warm smile.
The scene of that passionate face tearing raw meat with teeth in the darkness flashed before my eyes.
What happened to this town?
Soon, people seemed to finally be back on track, and there was no trace left in the square outside the window except for a pile of footprints.
Sean fell asleep amid all the speculation.
Moonlight is not so pleasant.
Although the crowd had dispersed, he could still hear the sound of hundreds of people chewing raw meat at the same time. The sound gave him nightmares.
In his dream, he saw the townspeople entering Mr. Panza's room, kidnapping him, and dismembering him in the bloody room...
Moonlight woke up again and again, wanting to rush out of the room to take a look.
But when he saw Sean sleeping breathing evenly on the side, he forced himself to calm down.
"Olivia doesn't need to sleep. Sean will definitely keep her on guard all night. If someone really wants to do something bad to us, she will definitely remind us..."
With this in mind, he wrapped himself tightly in the quilt in the cold night, and the soft and warm feeling before was gone.
…
When the moonlight opened his eyes again, the sun had already illuminated the linen curtains. He wasn't sure how long he slept.
Nothing happened overnight.
This made the pianists a little suspicious. The dark and quiet crowd they saw last night was just a scene they saw in a nightmare.
"Xiao, what happened last night?"
Sean was brushing his teeth in the bathroom. He was silent for a long time and then shook his head.
Suddenly remembering the nightmare she had about Pansha last night, Yueguang quickly put on her clothes and walked out of the room.
When he opened the door, he saw the possessed Panza wearing a mask and a pair of plush slippers, with his legs crossed, drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.
When he saw the moonlight and walked out of the room, he raised his head from the newspaper, with a smile in his voice: "I thought you would sleep a little longer, so I wouldn't wake you up.
"Breakfast is on the first floor, you have to get it yourself."
Moonlight stretched out pretending to be relaxed.
After washing up, Sean and Moonlight went downstairs to get breakfast.
Mrs. Berg still had a smile on her face and brought out coffee, toast, and fried eggs from the kitchen...
When Sean said thank you, Moonlight couldn't help but look at Mrs. Berg's smiling teeth——
He always felt as if there was still raw meat stuffed between this lady's teeth.
During breakfast, Yueguang was the first to break the silence. He looked at Pansha: "Recently, I have been learning about the folk customs and festivals of various places...
"Do you know any special customs in Rongyel?"
As Moonlight asked, although Sean and Olivia did not look at Panza, they obviously pricked up their ears secretly.
Pansha seemed to have just finished reading the newspaper, folding the "Kibuk Sun" three days ago and placing it in his hand, tapping his chin lightly: "Special custom?
"..." He thought for a while.
"Oh!" He raised a finger as if he remembered something: "They will hold a bonfire party before winter comes to celebrate having enough food to survive the winter!"
Yueguang, who had been sitting upright, suddenly bent down again: "No, I am referring to a more... special custom."
In order to give Pansha some hints, Sean turned and looked out of the balcony behind him - he could see the square illuminated by the sun and the stone monument that cast a shadow on the square like a sundial.
Pansha's gaze obviously followed Sean's hint and turned to the stone monument.
He thought for a while and shook his head.
·
Unable to ask anyone about the secret scene, Sean and the three of them could only keep this secret temporarily sealed.
They followed Pansha to the office of Jungyer's Questers branch - the investigation they wanted to conduct, involving the missing Questers, could only be done through industry channels.
In front of the wooden house engraved with the "Eye of Exploration" logo, and before finding local business operators to obtain more information, Sean and Pansha finally decided to exchange their respective purposes for the trip - after getting along for a long time, they had basically agreed The other party is a "red letter" (Note: The term "explorer" means an explorer who acts righteously, as opposed to the "black letter".).
Moreover, any possible help and support is indispensable when carrying out missions in this resource-scarce Northland.
When he heard that Sean and the others were here to look for his missing teammates, Pansha blinked in obvious surprise.
"This is really weird..." He even took a step back, the soles of his leather boots squeaking against the dirty snow.
He looked at the masks of the three people in turn, and then said: "I came to Rongyel this time to find someone."
