Chapter 259: Graveyard Array
According to Thor's instructions, the driver turned onto the path leading to Mofan Town.
After half a day, the walls of Mofan Town and the roofs of some tall buildings appeared before him.
The driver reined in his horse and slowed down. "Sir, Mofan Town is ahead. Should I drive directly in or stop outside?"
"Stay in the woods and wait for me like last time."
Thor felt that this trip to Mofan Town would not take too long, probably only half a day, so he asked the coachman to wait outside.
Suddenly the driver stared out of the woods and slammed the door in fear, "Sir, please look ahead!"
Upon hearing this, Thor immediately opened the car window and looked out.
The next second, his brows were tightly furrowed.
There used to be a field in front of the woods. When Sol came last time, his fellow villager Ada was tilling the field.
Now, there are rows of small mounds half a person's height on the flat land that was finally reclaimed.
The small mound of earth looked like an upside-down bowl, or more like a grave without a tombstone.
At first glance, the small mounds of earth were arranged neatly, forming a regular square array.
A rough scan revealed that there were several hundred of them.
"Don't come any closer, just wait here." As soon as he finished speaking, Thor rushed out of the car like a gust of wind.
He was moving very fast, his grey cape fluttering in the wind, his hood falling off, revealing his short black hair and light grey skin.
It's midsummer already, but even the morning breeze feels warm on the body.
But now Thor could only feel a biting cold.
He stepped onto the ridge of the field, and because of his movement, several small stones rolled along with the soil and fell to the field below, making a "crackling" sound.
The land was cracked like stone, and there was not even a single weed.
Thor stood at the edge of the field and immediately felt a strong smell of death.
These small mounds of earth are indeed tombs.
This field, which was once full of life, turned into a cemetery in just a few months! Those soul fragments that were easily scattered in the air were as conspicuous as will-o'-the-wisp in Thor's eyes.
Thor narrowed his eyes and swept his cold gaze across the entire cemetery.
"After I left, a massacre took place here. Not only that, they also crushed the souls of the dead. Are they afraid that someone skilled in dark witchcraft will torture the souls of the dead?"
There is just one thing that is a little strange.
As far as Thor knew, no special magic circle was needed to destroy the souls of ordinary people.
Therefore, these neatly arranged tombs appear extremely strange.
Not only are each grave mound the same size and height, but they are also horizontal and vertical, forming a square array.
But in this seemingly strange array of tombs, Thor could not find any magical fluctuations.
"Is this based on a witchcraft circle or a sacrificial ritual? Are the barbarians back again? Or are others deliberately putting on a show to fool outsiders?" Thor sneered and looked towards the town not far away.
The gate of the town was closed, and the lazy soldier who had been guarding the door was nowhere to be seen. I guess he had become part of the graveyard position.
In fact, before Thor came here, he had vaguely wondered whether there would be any accidents in Mofan Town.
But he thought that if the person who secretly took the Mosheng Fruit wanted to keep the secret and not alert others, he should not touch Mofan Town.
Or is the secret in Mofan Town more important than the fact that someone is eyeing the Mosheng Fruit? "I wonder how Ada and Penny are doing. I remember I asked them to leave here as soon as possible." Thor was a little worried about the two of them.
There is the somewhat dull Ada, and Penny, a cute girl trapped in a nightmare cocoon.
As an ordinary person, if you want to live more peacefully in this world, it is best not to have too much involvement with wizards.
Although they are no longer the same kind of people, Thor still does not want the fellow villager who once took him in to die here.
However, Thor was reasonable. If there was a wizard who really wanted to destroy the entire Mofan Town, then the two ordinary people would probably not be able to escape...
"Should I just leave and pretend I didn't see anything, or..."
Thor glanced at the gate of Mofan Town again. The gate was tightly closed, and it was extremely quiet behind the back door.
There was no early morning smoke from cooking fires above the town, nor was there any sound of insects or birds chirping.
"Maybe I can find some clues about the Mosheng Fruit in this town." He convinced himself.
However, instead of heading towards the town, Thor jumped off the field and walked directly to a grave.
He carefully cast a detection spell, and the grave showed no reaction.
"Even if there was any witchcraft array or sacrificial ritual here, it has been abandoned now. There is not even a trace of magical power left."
After completing the inspection, Thor immediately squatted down, put his hands into the soil, dug out a large piece of grave soil, and put it aside.
He wanted to open the tomb and see what was underneath.
"Sir, let me do this kind of work." The driver, who was standing on tiptoe and watching from a distance, shouted loudly when he saw Thor actually started to dig the grave with his bare hands.
Thor didn't even turn his head, he just raised his arm and waved to signal the driver not to come over, and continued to turn the soil.
After the transformation, his skin has returned to human appearance, but his strength and toughness far exceed those of ordinary warriors.
Digging a grave with bare hands is not difficult and is faster than using a shovel.
As for why witchcraft is not used, it is because they are afraid that the energy released by witchcraft will destroy the secret.
A few minutes later, with Thor's careful movements, a grave was dug out, revealing a package inside.
The material used for wrapping was just a tattered piece of clothing, which was stained with bright red blood.
"The blood is bright red, just like it just flowed out. This tomb formation is indeed a little unusual."
Judging from the size of the package, there was definitely not a complete body inside.
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Thor frowned and opened the package.
Inside were a few pieces of meat that were fresh enough to be thrown onto the chopping board at the market.
Thor used the cloth to turn the meat over.
Another eye was found under several pieces of meat whose owners were unknown.
"Dismemberment?"
It's becoming more and more like the methods of barbarians.
Thor stood up and checked the other tombs again.
He randomly selected graves to dig up, some in the center and some on the edges.
All of these graves contained pieces of meat wrapped in a simple piece of clothing.
Saul found three hands in one of the graves, and judging by the shape of the hands, they belonged to three different people.
Now Thor was basically certain that the pieces of meat in each grave did not belong to the same person.
Not only were the bodies dismembered, but they were also buried together.
Thor wrapped the body parts again in clothes and put them back in the grave, but did not cover them with soil immediately.
Thor returned to the ridge of the field and remained silent for a long time. Then he raised his hand, summoned the wizard's hand, and covered the loose soil he had dug up.
"There are no witchcraft props or magic circles hidden under the tomb. Could it be that someone was so bored that he used the corpses of everyone to create an art display?"
With nothing more to discover in the tomb, Thor decided to enter the town of Mofan.
After using a cleaner to clean the mud and sand off his body and hands, Thor put on his hood and slowly walked towards the town.
However, when Thor was only a dozen meters away from the town gate, the gate of Mofan Town suddenly creaked open a little.
An old man leaned half of his body out from inside.
The man was unkempt and dirty, but Thor still recognized his identity the moment he saw him.
"Old lunatic?"
Thor walked forward quickly, but the other party suddenly stretched out a dry and thin arm and pushed him forward.
"Go back now," he said. "Don't come in."
Of course, Thor would not let him take him away just like that.
He did not retreat but advanced, "Old lunatic, are you still alive? Where are the others? Where are Ada and Penny?"
The old madman shuddered all over. He looked up at Thor with a complicated expression, and his eyes gradually became filled with madness.
"I said we can't trade with the barbarians, we can't, we can't... The village is destroyed, everyone is dead... The village is destroyed, everyone is dead..."
Without waiting for Thor to say anything else, he suddenly dived back inside and slammed the door shut.
Thor walked to the city gate, put his hands on the gate and was about to push it hard when he suddenly heard the sound of a tide.
“Wow…wow…wow…”
Mofan Town is located in the northern desert, a place with scarce water resources. And Thor remembered that there was no river in the town.
Where does the sound of the tide come from? (End of this chapter)
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