The originally white and translucent snow had now become filthy due to the upturned soil. Suchen, Vargas and Wiside had dug pits all around, but nothing seemed to be found. Except for the soil, there are just messy rocks.
"Sigurd, are you lying to us? There is nothing here but stones?" Vargas' face was covered with mud. He threw the tool on the ground angrily and yelled at Sigurd.
"Be patient, treasure is not that easy to find." Sigurd leaned on the boulder and said to Vargas with a smile.
"Ulf, I suspect this woman is playing tricks on us." Vargas said to Suchen angrily. At this time, Suchen did not stop digging. He believed that Sigurd had no reason to deceive him. Seeing that Su Chen was indifferent, Vargas let out a low roar in his throat, picked up the tools again, and started digging.
"Hang." Suddenly, Vargas felt his tool hit something hard in the soil, so he hurriedly listened and his heart began to beat violently, "There is no real treasure, right?"
Vargas swallowed his saliva. He no longer dug roughly with tools, but used his hands to dig. Soon, a bright object came into his eyes. It was an emerald the size of a pigeon egg.
"It's a gem, we found it, we found it." Vargas excitedly raised the gem in his hand and shouted loudly to Su Chen and others.
"It seems you have found it." Sigurd stood up. She looked at the big hole dug and said to Su Chen and others.
Suchen and Verside also hurried over to help clean up the dirt on it. Because it had been piled up for too long, the dirt and jewelry on it were mixed together. Even Hyde and Sigurd also helped separate the gems and dirt.
"Ah~~." Suddenly, Haide screamed, and she ran behind Su Chen in fear, pointing at the big pit and being speechless for a long time.
"What happened?" Su Chen looked in the direction of Hyde's finger and saw a section of white bones sticking out between gems, silver coins and some silverware.
"What is that?" Vargas was also very surprised. He didn't understand why there were human bones mixed among these treasures.
"Could it be?" Verside suddenly realized, but looking at the frightened Hyde, he opened his mouth but did not say anything.
"Viside, what's going on?" Su Chen saw that Viside knew the truth of the matter, so he asked him.
"Lord, you will find out when you dig it out." Viside sighed. He did not answer directly, but started to carefully clean it up with tools. Soon, a round of human bones appeared in front of everyone.
"This is~~." Su Chen's eyes widened. He saw that the bones of this white skeleton were all too small, and the clothes on his body were already in tatters, but it could be seen from the broken pieces of cloth that this was a North The body of the child was neither a slave nor a foreigner.
"This is a child sacrificed to protect the treasure." Verside stood nearby and said to Su Chen helplessly.
In the dark legends of the Vikings, some people believed that buried treasures needed guardians, otherwise they would be stolen by other ghosts and thieves, so they would arrange for willing sacrifices of guardians to be sacrificed, and the corpses of these guardians They will be buried with the treasure, but usually they will choose slaves or unimportant captives, but in legend, the souls of children are the purest and most effective.
"So Hrov killed a child and buried him with the treasure." Su Chen's pupils shrank and his face became gloomy.
"No." But Sigurd on the side shook his head, folded his arms and said to Suchen.
"No, then what is this?" It's not that Su Chen didn't understand some barbaric customs in the Middle Ages, but when the bones of an innocent child were presented in front of his eyes, he still couldn't contain the anger in his heart.
"I mean, not one, but thirteen. After every Hrolf raid, a child will go missing in the villages and towns of East Hamar. He will announce to the outside world that the child has been stolen by the underground dwarves." Gould sighed and said slowly to Suchen.
Su Chen stared at the big pit in front of him with wide eyes. Under his feet were buried the bodies of thirteen children. Their speechless bones were silently telling the story of Khrov's evil deeds. Suddenly, Su Chen felt his stomach turning. , an uncontrollable feeling of vomiting rushed up in his throat, forcing him to climb up.
"vomit~~vomit~~." Everything in his stomach was vomited out. Even though the little food he had eaten had been vomited, stomach acid still spurted out like water, until his shoulders shook and cold sweat broke out. .
"Ulf, are you okay?" Vargas said with a frown. Although he felt that Hrolf did a bit too much, in the Norse concept, children who are not adults do not have many rights at all. In times of famine, Sometimes, some parents would throw the thinnest children into the forest, and some would even eat people, so he didn't feel much about it.
"Lord." Hyde stepped forward with concern and handed the leather water bag on his waist to Su Chen.
"I'm fine." Su Chen wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand, took the water bag and poured the water into his mouth.
"We can sort out these corpses and take them back to the parents." Vargas looked at the child's bones and suggested to Suchen.
"Yes, we really should do this." Su Chen nodded slightly, and at the same time he already knew how to deal with Hrov.
The treasure was quickly unearthed, along with thirteen little corpses, including boys and little girls. Their remains were neatly stacked aside, and Hyde looked sad and sprinkled them with water from the water bag. Above, she even identified one of her childhood friends from the wrist of a skeleton.
"Don't worry, the souls of these children will definitely be accepted by the gods of the Asa clan. When spring comes, their souls will walk happily in the forest under the leadership of the goddesses." Sigurd said Su Chen comforted her, her eyes were extremely gentle. She didn't expect that Su Chen would have such a big reaction when he saw the bones of these children. This was in sharp contrast to Hrov's cold blood, especially now that she was It’s motherhood.
"I don't know if their souls will be accepted by the Asa Protoss, but I understand the principle of blood repayment with blood." Su Chen sat next to the pit, hugging his knees, and scanned the corpses and the bright lights inside with his sharp eyes. of treasure.
"You~~." The corner of Sigurd's mouth twitched. She seemed to feel what Su Chen wanted to do next, but she did not speak but wrapped her fox fur coat around her. The wind seemed to become stronger. of coldness.
As night fell, the people of East Hamar saw Suchen, Wayside, Vargas and others walking back in disgrace, but they were dragging a box and some things wrapped in cloth behind them. They were very puzzled.
"The ceremony is about to begin. Where are you going?" The prophetess walked out of the lord's house. She looked at several people with some dissatisfaction, especially Su Chen, who had a gloomy look.
"We went to find something, and the ceremony is as usual." Su Chen passed by the prophetess. He wanted to wash up before the ceremony. There was no moment when he was so eager to become the lord of East Hamar.
"What happened? Why do you smell of death on your bodies?" The prophetess stopped Vargas as he walked over and asked him.
"Hey." Vargas grinned, shrugged, and did not answer the prophetess. He moved the wooden box into the lord's house, and this was only one third of the treasure.
"Wow." Sitting in the wooden barrel, the steam from the warm bath water immediately filled the entire room. Su Chen soaked his entire body in the water. He sat at the bottom of the wooden barrel and felt the oppression and warmth around him. Just like in the mother's body.
"From today on, I will be Lord Ulf of East Hamar. I will no longer be the office worker Suchen. I will rule the world as a Viking lord."
Those children who cannot control their own destiny seem to have given him some kind of revelation. In this dark era, only the strong can avoid being manipulated like pigs and sheep. It is impossible to integrate into it with a modern soul. , Suchen's soul in his body seemed to stay in the cursed place together with the buried children. At this moment, Ulf made a change.
