After traveling all night, Nok avoided countless monsters and beasts that were targeting him, and finally arrived at his first destination - Kored at dawn.
Looking at the village shrouded in dusk and dusk, Nok, standing by the road outside the village, couldn't help but stop moving forward.
quiet! Eerily quiet.
Normally, at this point, even in the city, people would already be getting up early to cook.
What's more, it's a village engaged in farming.
But in the village in front of me in the morning and dusk, there is no light in the whole village.
Standing at the entrance of the village, Nok didn't even hear a single noise in the village.
Not only was the village eerily quiet.
Even the surroundings of the village were eerily quiet.
There was no chirping of insects or birds, not even the sound of wind.
It’s late autumn now!
Nok looked at the village in front of him, feeling uneasy as he was staring into the abyss.
Just when he was hesitating whether to enter this strange village to find out what was going on, there was movement on the road behind him.
He turned and looked behind him.
In the distance, a dark shadow, accompanied by a "tap, tap, tap" sound, was moving quickly towards the village.
At this moment, Nok's back suddenly felt cold, and a creepy feeling spread all over his body.
The village behind me is alive!
The dark village was suddenly brightly lit.
The originally lifeless house was full of people.
In the village, chickens and dogs hear each other.
The closed doors were opened, and the villagers walked out of their homes one after another.
They greeted their neighbors enthusiastically, carrying wooden basins or baskets, and walked towards the entrance of the village in an endless stream.
From the house closest to the village entrance, an old man carrying a dim lamp came out.
The old man held the lamp and led the villagers with different expressions behind him out of the village entrance.
However, no one in this village seemed to have seen Nok standing at the entrance of the village. They completely ignored him as a stranger standing at the entrance of the village and passed by him one by one with laughter.
Nok quickly retreated to the roadside to avoid this group of strange villagers. His expression did not change, but his heart was still messy.
He could not detect the breath of living people from these villagers.
To be precise, he only detected one aura from a group of villagers.
That breath didn't belong to the villagers, but to the dim oil lamp held by the old man in front!
The atmosphere of joy and joy is mixed with fear and despair.
However, this messy atmosphere had an inexplicable attraction to Nok.
Make him feel like he wants to join in.
Nok was so frightened that he quickly recited the Bible silently in his mind. He quickly retreated to the grass on the roadside and hid himself in the grass.
The black shadow in the distance gradually approached the village, and Nock realized that it was an elongated carriage.
It is said to be a carriage, but it is not the kind of box carriage that people use when traveling, but the kind of shelf carriage with an extended frame that is specially used to pull goods.
Nock guessed that this might be a carriage that came to pull goods from the British market.
However, in the face of the demand of an entire city, only one carriage is sent out to bring back vegetables. Can the market demand be met?
It seems that it is not the village that is weird, but also the British marketing department!
When the carriage arrived at the entrance of the village and stopped, the villagers coming out of the village had already dispersed into the vegetable fields outside the village.
Looking at the busy figures, this is a scene of hard-working farmers.
Nok doubted whether he had been under an illusion before.
Or maybe the exhaustion from traveling all night caused him to hallucinate.
Otherwise, how could he explain the scene before him!
Nok was sure that the villagers in front of him were definitely not undead.
But it’s definitely not a normal human being!
The driver of the carriage at the entrance of the village jumped out of the carriage, took a bunch of fresh fodder from the carriage and threw it at the horse's feet, allowing the horse to rest as much as it wanted.
He himself came to the vegetable field and shouted to the busy crowd: "Village Chief Motrov, can't we have more vegetables today? Your sudden reduction in supply has greatly affected our market! Even if Even if we temporarily increase orders to the port, we won’t be able to share the pressure right away!”
A dim yellow light shakily emerged from the vegetable field. The old man with a lantern stood in the field and shouted to the coachman in a dry voice.
"Norman, I'm sorry. For some unknown reason, our vegetable plot has suddenly reduced its production. We really can't provide the market with the normal amount of vegetables we used to. I'm afraid if this continues, we may not even be able to collect the taxes to pay the lord."
After hearing the village chief's complaint, the coachman said nothing more.
He is only responsible for running errands, not purchasing.
The Market Purchasing Department had already sent people to investigate, and the vegetables in the Kelade vegetable patch were indeed wilted inexplicably.
Even though the vegetable field is wet, the vegetables in the field are still inexplicably dead.
Only the vegetables in the vegetable field in front of me are pretty good.
Therefore, the purchasing department reluctantly agreed to reduce the amount of vegetables provided by Kolled.
After all, even if they were held accountable for breach of contract, they would not be able to extract much compensation.
Eighty percent of Kored's income has been handed over to the lord here.
He also knew that it was impossible to ask Korede to provide more supplies, but he was a bit bored waiting to buy goods and was just looking for someone to chat with.
"I said to Village Chief Motrov, have you forgotten to worship the God of Nature? Let me tell you, now that the Lion Heart Kingdom is the territory of the Nature Cult, it may not work for you to worship the God of Harvest."
There is not so much estimation in the chat of little people, but the coachman actually dares to gossip about the religious disputes among sects.
This made Nok, who was hiding far away, stunned.
As a priest of the Holy Church, Nok dare not slander the gods of other sects behind their backs.
After all, gods are just sleeping, not dead!
This coachman is in trouble!
"Haha, we country people don't understand this. We will believe in whatever gods the lord wants us to believe in. It's not our turn to make the decision."
The village elder's answer was cunning, but his behavior was strange.
As a village chief who didn't have to pick vegetables himself, even if he was chatting with the driver, he didn't leave the vegetable field. Instead, he would rather talk to the driver from a distance.
As an elderly person, his behavior is a bit thankless!
It seems that the strangeness behind this does not want the coachman to discover the abnormality of Creed.
When Nok thought of this, he was suddenly shocked.
He recalled the moment when the carriage appeared, and the moment when he suddenly felt numbness in his scalp with his back to the village.
Maybe Tanok owed the coachman his life!
Thinking of that weird thing, in order to hide the truth about the village, they were willing to waste time acting for the coachman.
Then if the coachman leaves, his fate will not be good!
Nok didn't dare to stay any longer and quickly turned around and moved away secretly.
He wanted to stay far away from this weird village.
It is not impossible that the weird people behind the scenes kill both themselves and the coachman in order to cover up the truth!
It is better to take advantage of the other party being dragged by the coachman and take the opportunity to leave. This is a good thing for Nok and the coachman.
Nok, who turned to leave, did not realize that when he decided to leave, the lights in the village collectively flickered for a moment, and then returned to normal again.
The village elder in the vegetable field glanced at Nok's position with a blank look, stared at the direction Nok left and shook the lamp in his hand, but finally made no move.
The driver was still chatting with the village chief.
Nok was sweating profusely and looking around him.
A moment ago, he was walking in an open field, but now he was in a dark, dead forest.
Nok was sure that there was absolutely no forest like this on the way he came.
Even though he was traveling at night, the lady of the waning moon, who had successfully lost weight, was always hanging high in the sky, lighting the way forward for Nok.
Even when dawn came, she would not get off work early.
Therefore, if there was such a dry forest on the road, it would be impossible for Nok not to miss it.
"Secret realm? Subspace? Or illusion or formation?"
Nok looked around with an ugly expression, always feeling that something was wrong with these dead trees.
It would be okay if it was a secret realm or subspace. Since there is an entrance, there must be an exit.
Take your time and there's always a chance you'll find it.
But if it was an illusion and formation, it meant that he had fallen into someone else's plan.
Nok is not afraid of illusions, he is confident that no illusion can trap him.
But if it is a mysterious formation, it will be a headache.
Except for those masters who like to study, not many people will understand this mysterious magic method brought back from the mysterious East by the Eastern Expedition Army.
If it weren't for the records of the Eastern Expedition in the monastery's study, Nok wouldn't even know about the existence of the formation!
Not knowing his situation for the time being, Nok did not dare to act rashly.
However, standing still was not an option, so he planned to test it out.
"O Almighty Holy Lord, please illuminate the way for your faithful servant and guide me in the direction of progress."
"Illumination!"
A glimmer of light condensed in Nok's hand and gradually turned into a shimmering ball of light.
call out!
The ball of light shot into the sky, guarding one meter above Nok's head like a satellite, illuminating the surrounding environment for Nok.
The illumination range is only five meters in radius, but it is enough for Nok to use.
Illumination is a spell unique to the light system, and generally only priests of the Holy Church know it.
As for other professionals on the mainland, they all use torches or lanterns for lighting at night.
The visibility is not as wide as the illumination technique, let alone the clarity.
Nok maintained the lighting technique and slowly explored forward.
But he didn't realize that behind him, due to the emergence of lighting technology, a group of black shadows were watching him in the darkness behind him.
At the same time, outside the village of Kored.
With the help of the villagers, the fully loaded coachman drove the carriage and started the return journey before sunrise.
The leaving carriage gradually disappeared from the sight of the villagers of Kored.
The village elder held the lamp and sent the villagers back to the village.
The village, which was originally bustling with people, became silent again.
The village elder held the lamp and walked towards his house step by step.
As he walked, he murmured: "I can't escape, I can't escape.
No one can disturb the tranquility here. nobody……"
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