Sean didn't dare to use the oath torch under such a clear night sky.
He could only use his flashlight to illuminate the path in the snowy forest like his companions.
They stepped foot deep into the snow, trying to leave this ancient area, leave the dense forest, and return to the horse tethering area.
It's certainly been a long journey, but they have been reunited with Evan Burns.
So, they had no complaints about the return journey.
However, the situation is somewhat different from that of Sean and his party. The possessed Panza returned with the body of his teacher.
At this moment, a strange-looking beast of burden summoned by Pan Sha was walking beside Pan Sha, carrying the body of the holder of the Black Book.
The sadness of the teacher's death and the impact of everything just now caused Pan Sha to change his previous activeness, not saying a word, and just walking with his head lowered.
The person behind the scenes that Sean had been worried about, who planned all this and wanted to make up for the Wendigo, did not appear.
He was relieved for a moment. In order to find out the truth about that year, and to make the return journey less depressing, he began to ask Ivan.
"What happened in this forest, and who did all this?"
Evan Burns said slightly out of breath: "I don't know who wants to complete the Wendigo, but I basically know the whole story...
"As you can see, if you hadn't put an end to all this, I would have been killed by the Wendigo now.
"If this is the case, then the legendary monster from back then will break through its boundaries and walk freely in the world.
"Judging from its abilities, it is at least a demigod-level existence..."
Ivan exhaled a breath of mist: "So, there is no doubt that the person who designed this scene was to create a god, to create a powerful demigod from a divine thing with many limitations."
Moonlight recalled everything the old painter said, and the time and space in her heart connected: "So, those explorers who created the Wendigo did this for the same reason, to create a demigod?"
The Possessed Panza and Evan Burns both looked at the pianist in surprise.
The former's surprise is easy to understand. He had never visited the old painter before, so of course he had no idea that anyone had witnessed the creation of the Wendigo by the three explorers.
But Ivan's surprise was different: "Have you already investigated to this point?"
Having lived near Rongyel all year round, he had heard about the tragic events that occurred in the Northern Brigade since he was a child. However, if he had not listened to the holder of the Black Book himself during his escape, he would not have known about the Wendigo. The truth of birth.
Therefore, he was a little surprised that Sean and the others had gone this far.
Sean stepped in the mud: "Yes - we accidentally found the witnesses from that year. However, we have no clue about this situation at all..."
"There is no clue for sure." Ivan's soul was filled with some golden sparks, and the warmth made him feel much more comfortable. "I heard the holder of the Black Book talk about this, and I was surprised for a long time."
Pansha, who seemed unable to understand the ongoing conversation, and the purple light in his eyes had weakened a lot, stared at Ivan quietly.
"After learning the truth, I realized how much my grandfather and the other two explorers had been burdened with..."
Everyone tacitly kept quiet and listened to Ivan's story.
"Sixty-five years ago, a brigade heading north led by three explorers got caught in a snowstorm and lost their way in this strange forest.
“They tried everything they could to get out of the forest.
"There is a natural deception in the depths of this forest, that is, within the boundaries. It is difficult for outsiders to get out. They were like being swallowed into the belly of a python and will be slowly digested. .”
Sean was convinced.
The possessed Panza was too wise not to rush into the border before.
If the absolute coordinates hadn't always been effective, it would have been difficult for them to get out of here.
“In the end, they had no choice but to camp here and wait for rescue.
“The days of waiting passed day by day, and even though they scrimped repeatedly, the food they carried had been used up.
"Winter has not passed. The brigade heading north is in serious trouble."
At this moment, they finally walked out of the border and came to a relatively "friendly" area.
Everyone suddenly felt more relaxed.
“Some people collapsed from hunger and cold.
"As the leader of the team, the Explorers will face a terrible situation: they will have to watch people starve to death one by one.
“These people chose to trust them and put their lives in their hands…
"If the Northern Brigade is destroyed, it will probably be more uncomfortable for the three explorers than waiting to die."
As he walked, the moonlight looked at the surrounding trees, as if he saw a pair of desperate and sad eyes.
"In order to allow more people to survive, the three explorers decided to do something." Ivan took a deep breath. "In the end, they chose to use some kind of power that was already lingering in the forest, supplemented by Mysterious means to summon the Wendigo..."
"Why do you do this?" Yueguang asked subconsciously before she could figure it out.
But when he asked this question, he suddenly understood.
The shock even made him stop for a moment.
The people of the Northern Brigade, when there was no food and their companions were starving to death, they would rather starve to death than refuse to eat their own kind.
Faced with this situation, the three explorers decided to delay some more time until rescue came...
They summoned the Wendigo, who turned the group members into beasts and forced them to eat human flesh.
They tried to extend the life of the entire team in a way that ordinary people could not imagine.
In the end, after almost all the members committed taboos, they finally received rescue from a high-level explorer.
"The moment help arrived, three Questers dispersed the mutilated Wendigo.
"And vow to take this secret to his grave."
Several people walking through the forest fell into deep silence.
They were shocked by this past event.
The team leader cannot accept a situation where people are ruined because of their adherence to moral precepts.
They had no choice but to violate taboos, introduce seemingly evil forces, and allow people to break through the lower limits, in order to preserve the fire of life.
After the tragic Xuelin was rescued, it also started decades of discrimination, attack and incomprehension.
The three explorers said nothing about this, and watched the establishment of Rongyel in the midst of turmoil. The children who almost starved to death gradually grew up.
They saw the child hiding, and the child who grew up to be a painter saw them as monsters.
In order to survive, the three explorers endured a lot.
But they said nothing.
Carrying everything in the darkness, using unimaginable means to continue the life of walking in the light.
"Your grandfather and the others..." Yue Guang's eyes flickered, looking at Ivan who seemed a little exhausted from the narration, "They did what a leader should do. They also did what a explorer should do."
Put aside the shackles of prejudice and morality, regardless of whether it is worth it, just to survive, to choose a path of life for everyone...
Sean was deep in thought. If he had been the explorer back then, could he have made such a choice?
After thinking for a long time, he had no answer.
