Chapter 444: The Forsaken Realm (33) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

"Dig directly from here?" Guan Hongyan was a little hesitant.

"Is there any problem?" Bai Jinshu looked up.

"This is a big problem..." Bai Mo said weakly, "This is someone's lounge."

When I went out to find some dry food, a big hole appeared in my lounge. Even if this is a Western fantasy world, it is too fantasy.

"And this..." Guan Hongyan stepped on the ground under her feet, "It's pressed very firmly... It's impossible to do it with just your hands, you need some tools."

In this room filled with junk, weapons, sofas and everything else, the only thing missing was a shovel or something like that.

You can't use other people's bows and arrows to dig.

"Then let's go find some shovels?" Xu Zichen opened the door a crack and looked around. "Is there a shovel here? Wouldn't the bearded hunter think something was wrong if I came in with a shovel?"

What decent person would hold a shovel in the lounge?

"And he seemed to be sitting at the door," Lu Changfeng whispered, "When I came in just now, he was still humming a song."

Without him saying anything, the door opened a little, and everyone could hear the tuneless humming coming from behind the front desk at the door.

Looking through the small gap, I could see the bearded hunter humming a song while tidying up things on the table. He seemed to be in a good mood.

"What is that?" Su Hao asked in a very low voice, looking at the thing on the table tied with yellow oilcloth and hemp rope.

"It seems to be the dry food at the hunter supply station..." Zhao Yinglai was silent for a few seconds, and then questioned, "Do we really want to eat this?"

This doesn't look like it's edible?

"Let me ask this in another way..." The white moth also remained silent, "Can the food here really be eaten?"

Everyone became even more silent.

The hunter supply station seemed to be a place where no one cleaned it and there was no dedicated chef. All food and accommodation were the sole responsibility of the bearded hunter.

In this terrifying silence, Hector sighed with true emotion: "The bounty hunter is so pitiful."

I actually have to live in a place like this when I'm on a mission.

Everyone nodded with deep sympathy: "Poor bounty hunter."

I still have to live in a place like this.

Enoch said weakly, "It's nice to have a place to live in the wilderness. It's safer than in the wild. And people who can live here are very powerful."

The people on duty at this kind of supply station deep in the forest are all experienced and capable hunters. Just by looking at the bearded hunter's muscular physique of nearly two meters tall and his deep voice when he speaks, you can tell that he is definitely a leader among bounty hunters.

Only people like this dare to be on duty at the supply station.

Generally, bounty hunters or adventurers are lucky to find a place to live in the deep mountains and forests, where there are strong bodyguards and nothing will go wrong most of the time.

There is no choice but to choose whether it is clean or not.

"Really?" Zhao Yinglai blinked maliciously, "Is he as powerful as Delmis?"

Enoch replied, "Absolutely not."

No matter how powerful a bounty hunter is, no one would wear a maid outfit and cat ears.

In a way, Delmis is invincible.

Zhao Ying failed to stir up trouble, and turned to Xu Zichen with regret and whispered: "Close the door first."

Xu Zichen closed the door quietly: "What should we do? If it doesn't work, we can get a few shovels from the mall, right? Yun Guang?"

There should be a shovel in the mall, right?

Everyone looked at Yun Guang.

Yun Guang: ...

Yun Guang was silent for a moment, then turned to look at Delmis with a puzzled look on his face: "Can't you use magic?"

Why do you have to dig manually?

Delmis's expression was even more confusing: "When did I say I couldn't do it?"

In the bewildered eyes of the exploration team members, he stood up from the throne made of bones, with an extremely calm expression: "I only said that we should dig, it was you who discussed it a lot."

Everyone: …

Then just watch us discuss it!

Not a word?

Bai Jinshu shrugged his shoulders, and the bones behind him spontaneously formed into skeletons one by one as if with souls. Bones were flying all over the sky, and light gray weapons lingered around these bones as if alive, carrying a chilling aura.

The whole scene would not feel out of place even if it were put into a horror movie.

Fortunately, the exploration team members here have become accustomed to this scene.

——Of course, if you have seen white bones helping to deliver letters, white bones helping to plant rice, and white bones helping to build walls, you will also be desensitized to such images.

But Enoch was obviously not among those who were used to it.

Enoch:!

He was so frightened that he took several steps back and blurted out a Slenkmed curse word: "What the hell is this!"

"Skeletons," Guan Hongyan looked at him curiously, "Are you afraid of this?"

Enoch's horrified face: "Aren't you afraid?"

This is a skeleton!

Bones! Skeletons! Moving skeletons!

Where do so many moving skeletons come from!

"In the back," Dermis said in a more natural voice, "The bones didn't just appear out of thin air. Of course they were dug out from the grave."

Enoch was shocked: "You can read minds!"

"Wake up," Zhaoying couldn't bear to watch and patted his shoulder, "You just said it yourself."

Enoch: "I said it?"

"Yeah," White Moth nodded, "Where did you say these skeletons come from?"

"So..." Enoch trembled, "It came from the grave?"

"Whether it came from a tomb or not," Xu Zichen was puzzled, "Didn't Delmis sit on these bones just now? Didn't you see? Half of his body was bones?"

Isn't this fear too belated?

"I saw it..." Enoch said weakly, "but it's moving! And didn't he say it was a couple's outfit? I just think... it's a special illusion, just like my Whitebeard."

Everyone else: ...

You are quite polite, boy.

I feel it's strange, but I won't say it. There must be a reason why Delmis wears couple outfits like this.

The comments were silent for a few seconds:

[Oh no, I actually think Enoch is cute, is there something wrong with me? Can someone enlighten me? ]

[You have a problem, but first figure out whether you think Enoch is cute or catgirl is cute. ]

[Oh, so I like cat girls. That's fine. Thank you, Master.]

【You’re welcome, my friend.】

"No," Lu Changfeng said with difficulty, "that bone can really be inserted."

Otherwise, the two of them were touching something that night.

"Well..." Guan Hongyan decided to tell the poor child some truth, "Dermis is a necromancer who plays with these skeletons."

Enoch looked even more incredulous than if he had been forced to wear women's clothes.

"Necromancer..." Enoch stood there for a long while, until everyone around him turned their attention away. He scratched his head and whispered, "That's not right... Is there a profession called Necromancer on this continent?"

He looked ahead strangely, and some very vague memories seemed to surge in his mind for a few times, but soon there was no follow-up.

Not far away, the skeletons resurrected and began to use their bones to dig the magic sand on the ground. The one on the left was missing an arm and the one on the right was missing a leg. They had no shovels to dig the sand. There was also a skeleton that took off its head to hold the dug sand. The whole picture looked full of a strong working atmosphere and prosperity.

...It would be better if the people working there weren't a bunch of skeletons.

"It's not convenient to use magic," Bai Jinshu said. Without the help of the great man to pull the dead out of the work, he had no stool left and could only stand by the side. He stared unhappily at the greasy sofa and the skeleton working hard, and said in a bad tone, "The magic power of the magic sand has been consumed. I don't know what's underneath. If I use magic, it may cause unknown magical reactions."

Therefore, it is safest to dig it out using physical means.

It's just that it's a little slower and a little more difficult to dig.

"I understand," Guan Hongyan held a dry rib that she had taken from some skeleton and poked the ground intermittently, trying to help out. "There might be something buried underneath. We can only dig it up physically."

"What if the pit is very deep?" Su Hao was a little worried. "This is the Hunter Association's supply point, and this house is also the Hunter Association's house. What if that thing is driven into the foundation and is very deep? What should we do?"

"Probably not," Yun Guang shook his head gently, "This house is an ordinary wooden structure, and it only has two floors. Even if the foundation is dug, it won't be very deep."

"But..." He hesitated and looked at the ground under his feet. "This magical sand is spread so thickly here. Even if it was not poured in after the foundation was laid, it must have been accumulated for many years."

The transport trucks from the Perrin Mine go out several times every month. Although the routes are different, each unloading point receives magic sand once a quarter. After several years, the amount of magic sand transported here should be a large number.

If the ground here is paved with magic sand, then it should have been sunken when it was first built.

Only in this way can it be filled up through years of accumulation.

"Let's dig first!" Guan Hongyan waved her hand, "We'll know if there are any problems when we dig them up!"

This is a solution.

But it is definitely impossible to complete it quickly with just these skeletons.

"Dermis," Zhaoying looked at Bai Jinshu, "Can't you get some more skeletons?"

The more people... the more skeletons there are, the stronger the power.

Moreover, these skeletons were dug out using skulls, calf bones and thigh bones, which was much less efficient than using a shovel.

"That's all I can do," Bai Jinshu said with a subtle look on his face, "Many of the skeletons nearby are... useless."

"It doesn't work?" Xu Zichen was puzzled. "What does it mean?"

Just as he finished speaking, a loud roar was heard outside the window, like the echo of something sharp hitting the trees.

There was a sound of running outside the door. Ten seconds later, their door was slammed several times. The bearded hunter pushed the door open and said sternly to the group of "adventurers" and skeletons inside: "Don't come out for now. The wild beasts around seem to have found this place. I'm going to deal with them."

Unlike the previous hunter who had a relatively kind face, the bearded hunter now had a stern look on his face. He was wrapped in leather armor made of fur from an unknown animal, and in his hand was a bow that looked weathered by the wind and even had dried blood stains on it.

He looked like he was about to start a fight.

"What's wrong?" Enoch couldn't help but ask, "Is there any danger around?"

Why are you suddenly wearing this?

"Beast," the bearded hunter said in a loud voice. Because he was in a state of preparation for battle, his voice sounded even more serious. "I just found that the graves behind have been disturbed. It must be the beasts from the surrounding area. I'll go and deal with it. Don't come out."

After saying this, he slammed the door shut again and hurriedly walked out with the bow in his hand.

"The beast is coming?" Enoch was a little nervous.

"Has the tomb been tampered with?" Guan Hongyan was a little suspicious.

Everyone looked silently at the only "beast" present who might have disturbed the grave.

Bai Jinshu's expression remained unchanged: "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

If there are no graves nearby, did these bones just come out of thin air?

"No...it's nothing." Guan Hongyan silently looked at the rib in her hand and poked it a few inches deeper into the ground. "I just feel...um..."

Although necromancers are rejected by many people in Western fantasy stories, they are actually necessary.

He pretends to be dead wherever he goes and digs up graves all over the continent. He really doesn't look like a good person.

"Why didn't the hunter see the skeleton here?" Enoch came to his senses and found that although everyone around him was doing their own things, the skeleton in the middle of the room was still working diligently.

"A little illusion," the necromancer standing beside him with his arms crossed looked at him dimly, "otherwise, are we going to leave such a big pit here?"

"Dermis," Yun Guang walked quickly to the window and opened the window behind the Hunter Association's supply point, "What grave did you dig up?"

There are actually graves in this remote place?

"That..." Enoch said weakly, "Maybe it's the grave of a dead bounty hunter?"

He pointed outside: "The Hunter Association's supply points are all built in these deep mountains and old forests. Only certified hunters can be on duty here. Their general task is to ensure the safety of the supply points, and then help collect the bodies of hunters who died in the surrounding areas..."

After all, bounty hunting is a profession with a very high mortality rate. The tasks in this line of work often involve hunting dangerous wild beasts, so there are countless people who die at the hands of dangerous wild beasts.

These hunters who take turns on duty at the supply points deep in the mountains, in addition to ensuring the safety of the supply points, often help collect the bodies of hunters who have died at the hands of wild beasts.

The bodies of those killed by wild beasts are much more miserable than those killed by humans. Many wild beasts feed on humans, and when they are finally found, most of their bodies are incomplete. A very small number of them only have some scattered arms and legs left. If you encounter a particularly ferocious wild beast, the only trace left may be a bounty hunter's bow and a trail of blood heading towards the mountains.

It was considered lucky for a dead bounty hunter to have an intact body. In most cases, a pile of flesh and broken bones, whose owners were unknown, were piled together in a mess and buried in a random grave, as if they had been dealt with.

So I wanted to find some usable bones from this pile of bones gnawed by wild beasts to make a chair...

Everyone's eyes swept across the dissatisfied face of Delmis, and then looked at the skeletons of young and old women from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, who were still working hard in the pit. However, many of the bones did not fit the size. They all fell into the same silence.

It's really hard for you.

Not only will they be killed by wild beasts, but they will also be dragged out to work as long-term laborers after death.

The unscrupulous landlord Bai Jinshu showed no signs of reflection. Instead, he frowned and looked at the rib in Guan Hongyan's hand: "Don't poke it, that rib looks very brittle. If you poke it again..."

Before the word "break" came out of his mouth, the fragile ribs broke in the middle where the beast had bitten them.

"…I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Guan Hongyan placed the two ribs respectfully on the ground with great guilt, and finally gave up on joining in. "You guys dig slowly, dig slowly."

"I can't dig slowly anymore," Yun Guang looked out the window, "It seems someone has returned."

Everyone followed his gaze and looked over.

It seemed that several people walked out from the forest behind.

"That loud noise just now," Xu Zichen reacted immediately, "was meant to tell all the bounty hunters hunting wild animals around that a highly lethal wild animal had appeared nearby."

"The target outside," Lu Changfeng went out to look around, then came back to gesture, "the target we saw at the beginning standing at the door now has an arrow stuck in it."

It seems that it was this target that made the loud noise.

"Tsk," Zhao Yinglai said with a click of the tongue, "If these people come back, what will we do with this pit?"

Although the lounge is big, it cannot withstand digging. Now there is such a big pit in the middle of the lounge, which is almost half a person deep. Even if it is covered by illusion, these people who come back later will not go here.

"Fill it back first and talk about it later?" Su Hao hesitated.

"It's too late to fill it back," Yun Guang said decisively, "If all else fails, let's disguise the middle. We can't let them fall into this trap. We can think of other things later."

"Disguise...disguise..." Zhao Yinglai rolled his eyes a few times, "Anyway, just don't let them get close."

"Well," Yun Guang nodded, "Do you have a solution?"

Zhaoyinglai's gaze slowly fell on Enoch.

Enoch: ?

Enoch took a slow step back.

*

After hearing the warning, several hunters hurriedly ended their search and left the forest urgently for the supply point. They opened the door and found that the lounge was full of the smell of blood.

"What's wrong?" The leader was an elf boy, who frowned fiercely when he smelled the blood. "Did you encounter a beast that sounded the alarm?"

"Oh my god, are you okay?" A rough male voice came from behind, and a scaly hand pushed open the door. "There is medicine at the supply point. Do you know where it is? If you don't know, I can find it for you."

As the door was pushed open, the situation in the room came into everyone's sight.

There were about ten people sitting in the lounge of the supply point. There was a stretcher in the middle of the room, on which lay a cat girl who looked like she was wearing a skirt, covered in blood. Next to her was another human female squatting. The skirt she was wearing looked extremely expensive, and she didn't look like an ordinary adventurer.

She just heard the door open without raising her head, and continued to lie beside the stretcher and sob softly.

"Who are you?" Hearing the voice, the adventurers sitting on the sofa inside looked up.

"We are bounty hunters," the elf boy frowned and looked inside, "What's going on?"

Why is someone crying here at the Hunter Association’s supply point?

It looks like the person on the stretcher is seriously injured.

"We are adventurers passing by here," an adventurer sitting on the sofa stood up and spoke in a low voice, "We accepted a commission to escort the client to Cyril City, but we didn't expect to encounter a wild beast here, and one of the clients unfortunately died."

It looks like the person lying on the stretcher.

"Now..." The adventurer paused and said carefully, "The other client is very sad and needs time to accept it."

"Don't come over here!" The noble girl in the cake skirt turned around and shouted with sobs, "My sister is not dead! Don't say she is dead!"

"...That's it." The adventurer said awkwardly.

“Okay, okay.” The leading elf youth met “her” gaze, blushed, and stammered.

The remaining bounty hunters lowered their voices and slowed down their pace as they walked towards the sofa.

"Did you encounter the beast?" The elf boy found a random place to sit down, quickly changed the subject to cover up the heat on his face and asked in a low voice, "Did you see clearly what kind of beast it was?"

"No," Lu Changfeng also answered in a whisper, with a look of regret on his face, "We only saw something flash by, and then..."

The hunters nodded in understanding.

Someone had died, so naturally the atmosphere in the lounge became tense. For a moment, only the sobbing of the noble girl echoed in the room. No one was too embarrassed to say anything, so they could only sit in their seats and stare at each other awkwardly.

After a few minutes, someone couldn't stand it anymore and found an excuse to go out and went to his room. The rest of the people followed quickly.

As the bounty hunters left one by one, the exploration team members looked at each other with a clear plan.

As time passed, all the bounty hunters who had just come in left, and only the young elf remained here.

"Um..." The young elf watched his teammates leave one after another. Instead of following them, he gently pulled Lu Changfeng's sleeve and asked in a low voice, "Brother, what mission did you accept?"

"Escort the client to Bessel City," Lu Changfeng asked curiously, "Didn't I just say that?"

Why hasn't this man left yet when his companions have all left?

Hector couldn't pretend anymore. He had sharp eyes and saw the motionless "corpse" of Enoch on the stretcher. He couldn't help but open his eyes a little several times to observe them.

This person can't walk anymore, and these two can't pretend anymore.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot," the young elf stammered awkwardly, "I just wanted to ask, just ask..."

"What are you asking?" Lu Changfeng asked curiously.

"Ask..." He hesitated for a while, "What is the identity of your client?"

Lu Changfeng:?

Lu Changfeng turned around, looked at the others with a look of help and lip-synced.

【Why does this person ask about Hector's identity? 】

Are you doubting them?

Others: …

It's not really a question of doubt.

But something even more terrible than suspicion happened.

This bounty hunter seemed to fall in love at first sight with Hector in women's clothing.

"Our client is a noble lady from Besser City," White Moth stood up and said righteously, "We are escorting her this time to send her to meet her fiancé."

Guan Hongyan mouthed to Hector from behind: [Keep crying.]

The noble lady's sobbing sounded even sadder.

"Oh...oh, that's it." The young elf stood up a little disappointedly, "Then I'll...go to the accommodation first."

Guan Hongyan: "Go, go, go quickly, this noble lady has lost her only sister and is very sad now."

After all, if you don't leave, her only sister will not be able to pretend anymore.

God knows, now these two people are actually on the big pit, Enoch's stretcher is on both ends of the pit, and Hector is lying next to the stretcher with his body supported by a skeleton.

Anyone who dared to move might fall down, and all this was due to the fact that this messy room had everything except wooden boards.

Even the stretcher was exchanged temporarily.

There is everything in the Foundation store, but there is really no board that is suitable for this situation, a board of the right size that can just cover the big hole.

The strange looks of these two people and how difficult it is to maintain balance are beyond the understanding of you who are blinded by the illusion.

The elf boy had walked to the door, but when he heard these words, he suddenly stopped and turned back.

"So..." He stuttered, "So this noble lady just hired you?"

Everyone nodded in confusion.

"She has no knight of her own, and no one is loyal to her. Are you willing to escort her in and out of the dangerous forests and wilderness?" A trace of determination appeared on his face. He suddenly drew out an arrow and strode towards Enoch. "Then I am willing to do it for this little... Shit!"

No one expected that this man would suddenly turn around and walk towards Enoch when he reached the door. Before anyone could stop him, with a swear word from Slenkmed, the romantic elf boy fell into the pit.

Hector lost his balance and fell down as well.

On the pit, the "only sister of the noble girl" who had just been killed suddenly resurrected.

"What's going on?" The "only sister of the noble girl" tilted her head and looked down, and saw that the elf boy had just smashed a skeleton that was digging diligently downwards. She raised her head and met the eyes of Hector who had also fallen down.

Elf boy: "Uh..."

He looked at the situation around him and decided to complete his loyalty ceremony first.

He stood up again and drew out an arrow: "I am willing to offer my loyalty and honor to this noble lady..."

Everyone: …

"Call me sir." Standing at the bottom of the pit, seeing that the truth was about to be exposed, Hector, who had given up hope, revealed a desperate calm in his tone.

Elf boy: "Ah?"

Hector: "Sir."

The author has something to say:

Hector in the previous chapters: I have grown up, and I will not despair no matter what happens.

【Confession by the Elf】

Hector: ...

My hands and waist hurt today. I'm almost useless. I'm late. Sorry for the first 40+ random 20.