The land of God abandonment, a night with very low lightning frequency.
Several human-like creatures approached carefully near a meat ball with six legs and more than a dozen eyes.
They were wrapped in animal skins or could not see the original simple clothes, and with the help of the lighting of a few lanterns, they walked through the vast darkness with their expressions very solemn.
Some of them had more than 20 sarcomas on their faces, some of them had two eyes almost squeezed together, and some had no noses directly. There was a black hole in that position.
After a fierce battle, they successfully solved the monster, and then divided it into two groups, one group to watch over the surroundings, and the other group to harvest the spoils.
During this process, the man with multiple sarcoma on his face suddenly stopped when he dissected the monster's corpse and collected the edible parts.
Adal, what's wrong?The noseless woman asked in confusion.
The man known as Adal slowly pulled back his right hand, revealing an item he had found from the monster.
It was a talisman carved from stone with many traces of corrosion.
This is... The man with two eyes almost squeezed together seemed to understand the reason, and hesitated and did not finish his words.
Adal looked around and said:
Sin, Ruth, this was given to my father when I was a child.
On the day I became an adult, he felt that he could no longer control himself, so he chose to leave the city-state on his own and enter the depths of the darkness...
Xin and Rus were silent after hearing this, and they could both feel Adal's mood.
This is something that happens often in Yuecheng.
Because there are no safe enough ingredients, they can only pick mutated plant fruits and collect monster flesh and blood to maintain their survival.
This will cause them to accumulate toxins and madness, and after their physical condition declines, they will either die quickly or gradually lose control.
In order not to affect the surroundings and not to cause damage to the city-state, the latter often arranges everything after realizing that the state is wrong, and takes a torch and a small amount of food, leaves the defense circle, and goes away alone in the darkness that never dissipates, and never returns.
The residents of Yuecheng can imagine what their fate will be like. They are either killed by monsters or turned into monsters, and there is no other possibility.
After seven or eight seconds of silence, the noseless woman said to Adal hesitantly:
Maybe, this is the monster that killed your father.
It had a belt made of animal skin wrapped around it... Adal's voice gradually became lower. He lifted the dagger made of bones in his hand, inserted it hard, and cut out a piece of normal flesh and blood.
The members of the hunting team were skillfully collecting in a quiet state until Ruth, whose eyes were almost squeezed together, suddenly spoke in a low voice:
Among the newborn children, there are more and more deformed people...
The cost of accumulating toxins and madness from generation to generation is far more than just a decrease in average age. People who are still in normal physical condition will gradually experience certain changes, just like Adal, with a lot of sarcoma on their faces.
Similarly, precipitated toxins and madness may also be passed on to offspring, leading to the appearance of deformers, and Ruth and Xin in the hunting team belong to this category.
Their lives will be shorter and more likely to be out of control and change.
What does it mean to be more and more deformed children? The hunting team present is very clear in their hearts, that is, it may not take two or three generations. The residents of Yuecheng may be out of control before they have grown up and have not yet given birth to a new generation.
In that case, even without external attacks, Yuecheng would be destroyed quickly, leaving only stone buildings, wall drawings, etc. to prove that they once existed.
Hope the high priests and the others can find a new direction... Adal stood up with a lantern and answered extremely powerlessly.
In the past two or three thousand years, Yuecheng has sought a way to get rid of its current situation. They sent one exploration team after another to move forward in the depths of the darkness. Some returned after suffering serious setbacks, but they had no gains, and some had no news, and disappeared into the boundless darkness.
In addition, a distance from Yuecheng to the east, there was a gray and white mist covering the sky and the earth.
They are like invisible barriers, not only separating vision, but also making it impossible for any creature to pass through.
The residents of Yuecheng once thought this was the place of hope, believed that the place covered by gray and white fog was a normal country, and believed that the other side of gray and white fog was a land that was not cursed.
They tried to get into the gray mist again and again, but they all failed:
They dug long passages and wanted to pass through the ground without an invisible barrier, but the corresponding area deep in the earth was also shrouded in gray mist;
They found ways to gain the ability to fly and tried to cross from a high altitude, but they could not see the top of the gray mist until they were struck by lightning;
They mobilized the power of all the demigods and seals, attacking the target again and again. After two or three thousand years, they accumulated day after day, but failed to eliminate the invisible barrier...
Hearing the words of captain Adal, the members of the hunting team were desperate and sad, as if they were sliding down little by little on the edge of the abyss, but could not save themselves.
Those deformed people are originally a type that is difficult to control emotions. At this time, they feel more or less suppressed in their hearts and want to burst out.
In Yuecheng, two or three hundred years ago, the deformed person could not become an extraordinary person. He joined the hunting team and could only do the collection work. However, as the staff became more and more tight, the high priest and other senior officials relaxed the restrictions.
Let's go, this little food is not enough.Adal looked around, carried the lantern, and walked deeper into the darkness.
They did not take the risk of extinguishing the firelight and letting monsters surge out of the darkness, because those are likely to be something they can't deal with.
In a suffocating environment, the members of the hunting team in Yuecheng couldn't help but feel that there was no end to darkness.
It’s like Yuecheng’s current situation will never find hope, and the lanterns in his hand can burn less and less.
When the last ray of light dissipates, they will be completely swallowed by the darkness silently.
As he walked, a dim look suddenly appeared in Adal's eyes.
That was a little fire, not a fire of the hunting team!
The light of fire immediately shone into the eyes of all members of the hunting squad, occupying their pupils.
Adal, Xin, Rus and others opened their eyes wide and felt a strong sense of surprise emerged in their hearts.
In their lives, in the historical records of Yuecheng after the catastrophe, there was never a fire from elsewhere!
It is true that many monsters have the ability to be in the flame or the sun, but before launching an attack, they are lurking in the dark without showing any light.
And now, a light of fire appeared in the depths of the darkness!
Adal, Xin, Rus and others trembled slightly, and they thought a lot for a while, but couldn't figure out what the answer was.
They quickly recalled the hunting arrangements and confirmed that it was impossible for residents of Yuecheng to appear again nearby.
Since the fire does not belong to Moon City, where does it come from?
The entire hunting team slowed down, and they were both shocked, shocked, curious, afraid, worried, and panicked.
They also discovered some destroyed city-states, knowing that any abnormality in this darkness could be fatal.
……alert!Adal finally came to his senses and gave the order.
The hunting team immediately unfolded into a battle formation, waiting for the dim flame to approach this side.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment, and every second was so slow. Finally, after the ignition became larger, a figure shone out.
The figure...there is only one person...the members of the Moon City Hunting Squad held their breath at the same time.
They seem, perhaps, to meet an outsider!
Two or three thousand years have passed, and finally someone else has stepped into this land.
They are no longer the only ones in this abandoned world.
And who can travel through the endless darkness and arrive here, Adal and others have no experience and no way to guess.
As the fire became bigger and bigger and more obvious, the members of the hunting team gradually saw the figure clearly:
It was a young man with a slender figure, with dark hair and brown eyes, a cold expression. He was not a deformed person, nor did he change.
He walked step by step from the depths of the darkness with a strange hat and a lantern made of special materials.
The light of his lantern is brighter than the hunting team's combined, causing the darkness around him to fade away quickly.
It didn't take long before the light shone on Adal, Shin, Ruth and others.
The figure stopped, looked at the hunting team in Yuecheng, and spoke in a low voice:
Where are you from?
He spoke the giant language... His eyes were clear and he could communicate... Adal opened his mouth and stopped his urge to answer subconsciously.
He asked back:
Who are you?
The figure holding the glass lantern responded gently:
German Sparo.
After more than half a year of trekking and overcoming one difficulty after another, Klein's spiritual intuition finally told him that he was about to arrive at his destination.
And he also met the first group of living people in this trip to the abandoned land.
Where are you from?Adal remained vigilant and asked a question.
Klein's eyes swept across their faces and said in a constant tone:
I'm from Silver City.
It also comes from outside the cursed land.
Hearing this answer, all members of the hunting team were in a daze, wondering if they were too expecting that they had hallucinations.
……
In the autumn of 1351, Beckland in the smoke of war.
Since Fenerport also declared war on Ruhn, the war that had been tug-of-war for a period of time has finally lost its balance. Ruhn and his allies, Lenburg, Masek and Segar, have lost a large amount of territory, leaving only a few lines of defense to make difficult resistance, shaking.
After seeing the long queues from the food distribution point from the carriage window, Audrey slowly withdrew her gaze and said to Anne, a close maid:
Go to St. Samuel's Church...
Several human-like creatures approached carefully near a meat ball with six legs and more than a dozen eyes.
They were wrapped in animal skins or could not see the original simple clothes, and with the help of the lighting of a few lanterns, they walked through the vast darkness with their expressions very solemn.
Some of them had more than 20 sarcomas on their faces, some of them had two eyes almost squeezed together, and some had no noses directly. There was a black hole in that position.
After a fierce battle, they successfully solved the monster, and then divided it into two groups, one group to watch over the surroundings, and the other group to harvest the spoils.
During this process, the man with multiple sarcoma on his face suddenly stopped when he dissected the monster's corpse and collected the edible parts.
Adal, what's wrong?The noseless woman asked in confusion.
The man known as Adal slowly pulled back his right hand, revealing an item he had found from the monster.
It was a talisman carved from stone with many traces of corrosion.
This is... The man with two eyes almost squeezed together seemed to understand the reason, and hesitated and did not finish his words.
Adal looked around and said:
Sin, Ruth, this was given to my father when I was a child.
On the day I became an adult, he felt that he could no longer control himself, so he chose to leave the city-state on his own and enter the depths of the darkness...
Xin and Rus were silent after hearing this, and they could both feel Adal's mood.
This is something that happens often in Yuecheng.
Because there are no safe enough ingredients, they can only pick mutated plant fruits and collect monster flesh and blood to maintain their survival.
This will cause them to accumulate toxins and madness, and after their physical condition declines, they will either die quickly or gradually lose control.
In order not to affect the surroundings and not to cause damage to the city-state, the latter often arranges everything after realizing that the state is wrong, and takes a torch and a small amount of food, leaves the defense circle, and goes away alone in the darkness that never dissipates, and never returns.
The residents of Yuecheng can imagine what their fate will be like. They are either killed by monsters or turned into monsters, and there is no other possibility.
After seven or eight seconds of silence, the noseless woman said to Adal hesitantly:
Maybe, this is the monster that killed your father.
It had a belt made of animal skin wrapped around it... Adal's voice gradually became lower. He lifted the dagger made of bones in his hand, inserted it hard, and cut out a piece of normal flesh and blood.
The members of the hunting team were skillfully collecting in a quiet state until Ruth, whose eyes were almost squeezed together, suddenly spoke in a low voice:
Among the newborn children, there are more and more deformed people...
The cost of accumulating toxins and madness from generation to generation is far more than just a decrease in average age. People who are still in normal physical condition will gradually experience certain changes, just like Adal, with a lot of sarcoma on their faces.
Similarly, precipitated toxins and madness may also be passed on to offspring, leading to the appearance of deformers, and Ruth and Xin in the hunting team belong to this category.
Their lives will be shorter and more likely to be out of control and change.
What does it mean to be more and more deformed children? The hunting team present is very clear in their hearts, that is, it may not take two or three generations. The residents of Yuecheng may be out of control before they have grown up and have not yet given birth to a new generation.
In that case, even without external attacks, Yuecheng would be destroyed quickly, leaving only stone buildings, wall drawings, etc. to prove that they once existed.
Hope the high priests and the others can find a new direction... Adal stood up with a lantern and answered extremely powerlessly.
In the past two or three thousand years, Yuecheng has sought a way to get rid of its current situation. They sent one exploration team after another to move forward in the depths of the darkness. Some returned after suffering serious setbacks, but they had no gains, and some had no news, and disappeared into the boundless darkness.
In addition, a distance from Yuecheng to the east, there was a gray and white mist covering the sky and the earth.
They are like invisible barriers, not only separating vision, but also making it impossible for any creature to pass through.
The residents of Yuecheng once thought this was the place of hope, believed that the place covered by gray and white fog was a normal country, and believed that the other side of gray and white fog was a land that was not cursed.
They tried to get into the gray mist again and again, but they all failed:
They dug long passages and wanted to pass through the ground without an invisible barrier, but the corresponding area deep in the earth was also shrouded in gray mist;
They found ways to gain the ability to fly and tried to cross from a high altitude, but they could not see the top of the gray mist until they were struck by lightning;
They mobilized the power of all the demigods and seals, attacking the target again and again. After two or three thousand years, they accumulated day after day, but failed to eliminate the invisible barrier...
Hearing the words of captain Adal, the members of the hunting team were desperate and sad, as if they were sliding down little by little on the edge of the abyss, but could not save themselves.
Those deformed people are originally a type that is difficult to control emotions. At this time, they feel more or less suppressed in their hearts and want to burst out.
In Yuecheng, two or three hundred years ago, the deformed person could not become an extraordinary person. He joined the hunting team and could only do the collection work. However, as the staff became more and more tight, the high priest and other senior officials relaxed the restrictions.
Let's go, this little food is not enough.Adal looked around, carried the lantern, and walked deeper into the darkness.
They did not take the risk of extinguishing the firelight and letting monsters surge out of the darkness, because those are likely to be something they can't deal with.
In a suffocating environment, the members of the hunting team in Yuecheng couldn't help but feel that there was no end to darkness.
It’s like Yuecheng’s current situation will never find hope, and the lanterns in his hand can burn less and less.
When the last ray of light dissipates, they will be completely swallowed by the darkness silently.
As he walked, a dim look suddenly appeared in Adal's eyes.
That was a little fire, not a fire of the hunting team!
The light of fire immediately shone into the eyes of all members of the hunting squad, occupying their pupils.
Adal, Xin, Rus and others opened their eyes wide and felt a strong sense of surprise emerged in their hearts.
In their lives, in the historical records of Yuecheng after the catastrophe, there was never a fire from elsewhere!
It is true that many monsters have the ability to be in the flame or the sun, but before launching an attack, they are lurking in the dark without showing any light.
And now, a light of fire appeared in the depths of the darkness!
Adal, Xin, Rus and others trembled slightly, and they thought a lot for a while, but couldn't figure out what the answer was.
They quickly recalled the hunting arrangements and confirmed that it was impossible for residents of Yuecheng to appear again nearby.
Since the fire does not belong to Moon City, where does it come from?
The entire hunting team slowed down, and they were both shocked, shocked, curious, afraid, worried, and panicked.
They also discovered some destroyed city-states, knowing that any abnormality in this darkness could be fatal.
……alert!Adal finally came to his senses and gave the order.
The hunting team immediately unfolded into a battle formation, waiting for the dim flame to approach this side.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment, and every second was so slow. Finally, after the ignition became larger, a figure shone out.
The figure...there is only one person...the members of the Moon City Hunting Squad held their breath at the same time.
They seem, perhaps, to meet an outsider!
Two or three thousand years have passed, and finally someone else has stepped into this land.
They are no longer the only ones in this abandoned world.
And who can travel through the endless darkness and arrive here, Adal and others have no experience and no way to guess.
As the fire became bigger and bigger and more obvious, the members of the hunting team gradually saw the figure clearly:
It was a young man with a slender figure, with dark hair and brown eyes, a cold expression. He was not a deformed person, nor did he change.
He walked step by step from the depths of the darkness with a strange hat and a lantern made of special materials.
The light of his lantern is brighter than the hunting team's combined, causing the darkness around him to fade away quickly.
It didn't take long before the light shone on Adal, Shin, Ruth and others.
The figure stopped, looked at the hunting team in Yuecheng, and spoke in a low voice:
Where are you from?
He spoke the giant language... His eyes were clear and he could communicate... Adal opened his mouth and stopped his urge to answer subconsciously.
He asked back:
Who are you?
The figure holding the glass lantern responded gently:
German Sparo.
After more than half a year of trekking and overcoming one difficulty after another, Klein's spiritual intuition finally told him that he was about to arrive at his destination.
And he also met the first group of living people in this trip to the abandoned land.
Where are you from?Adal remained vigilant and asked a question.
Klein's eyes swept across their faces and said in a constant tone:
I'm from Silver City.
It also comes from outside the cursed land.
Hearing this answer, all members of the hunting team were in a daze, wondering if they were too expecting that they had hallucinations.
……
In the autumn of 1351, Beckland in the smoke of war.
Since Fenerport also declared war on Ruhn, the war that had been tug-of-war for a period of time has finally lost its balance. Ruhn and his allies, Lenburg, Masek and Segar, have lost a large amount of territory, leaving only a few lines of defense to make difficult resistance, shaking.
After seeing the long queues from the food distribution point from the carriage window, Audrey slowly withdrew her gaze and said to Anne, a close maid:
Go to St. Samuel's Church...
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