Chapter 260: Pulling People into the Water
The sound of a surging tide suddenly came from the town located in a drought-stricken area. Coupled with the strangely neat graves outside the town, Thor frowned for a moment, and his mind was full of thoughts.
"This town has been targeted... Is the secret behind the Mosheng Fruit so complicated?"
Since it concerns the diary, Thor can't give up easily.
After thinking for a moment, he decided to venture into the town.
However, when he put his hand on the city gate again, the diary that had been silent for a long time suddenly floated out from his left shoulder.
[September 1, 316th year of the New Moon Calendar. The neatly arranged tombs look like an invitation letter with neat handwriting.
You are invited to a deserted town to watch a death feast, but you are alone and weak and accidentally go behind the scenes and see the bloody truth.
Unable to escape, you are drowned by the waves of history and future.
The more red the curtain, the more it is made of the blood of the stagehands.
Now,
You are also fortunate to have contributed all your efforts to it. 】
It turned out to be a death warning? Thor quickly withdrew his hand.
"What on earth happened in Mofan Town? Even entering would trigger a death warning?"
"If I will die if I go in, then why is the old lunatic still alive?"
"Was that person just now really an old lunatic?"
Thor closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the fear and hesitation in his eyes had disappeared.
"Haven't I seen enough death warnings? Now what we need to find a way to avoid death." Thor calmed down and looked at the words in the diary again.
This diary not only issues death warnings, but sometimes also provides some solutions between the lines.
What Thor has to do now is to try to find the key points in these words that may lead to his death, so as to take evasive measures.
"A dying feast? Do you mean seeing the scenes before everyone dies, or someone is about to die?"
"By mistakenly entering the backstage, does that mean that I have discovered the truth of the drama, so revealing the truth here will lead to death? If I just look for the grinding sound fruit without exploring the reasons behind it, can I escape and ascend to heaven?"
Thinking of this, Thor stepped forward again.
Unfortunately, the contents of the diary that resurfaced still did not change the outcome of his death.
"Isn't this the crux of the matter?" Thor was not discouraged. He was already accustomed to countless attempts and deductions.
Soon he noticed another word.
"I am alone and outnumbered. Does the diary mean that I need to find a helper?"
Thor looked back and saw the driver standing on the ridge of the field, looking at him.
Seeing Thor turning around, he quickly stretched his neck, as if waiting for him to call his name.
"Although the mushroom on the driver's head is a bit weird, its power is too weak and it can only bully ordinary people." Without the diary's prompt, Thor ruled out this option.
"Does Diary want me to go back and get someone? But who should I get? I don't trust anyone except Byron and Keli, but if I take them with me, I'm worried that I'll get them into big trouble."
Senior Byron is trying to get promoted to a formal wizard, and the evil spirits he has extracted are enough to give him a hard time.
Keli has just been infected with metal toxins, and I don’t know if it has been completely resolved.
Calling them up here might not only not help, but it might also cost them their lives.
Thor immediately gave up the idea of taking them both with him.
We can’t call these two people, we have to find someone else, preferably a third-level apprentice.
He was powerful, but not enough to completely suppress Thor.
Thor suddenly thought of the candidate closest to him - Mochimochi who lived in the Black Castle.
Thor walked to the gate of Mofan Town again and thought to himself, "I will take Mochi Mochi with me."
This time the diary did not send any more reminders.
"Is it because of Mochimochi's special abilities, or because he is a third-level apprentice?"
Thor returned to the carriage and asked the driver to go around the town and come to another city gate.
This place is closer to the desert, and not far away are the fields where the mosheng fruit is grown.
But when Thor arrived here, he found that most of the wall surrounding the fields had collapsed, and there were many traces of smoke and fire on the wall.
"There's a fire here. Was it caused by the barbarian attack?"
"I remember that reinforcements had arrived when I left. We couldn't let such an important field be destroyed!"
Thor walked over the ruins and came to the field.
"Hiss——" He took a breath with some heartache.
It looked as if a huge fire had broken out in the field in front of me, and everything was burnt black.
On this charred land, there are hundreds of neatly arranged graves.
The soil of these graves was also charred black, and there was no doubt that inside were blood-stained clothes and pieces of flesh belonging to different people.
There is definitely no grinding sound fruit here.
Since these walls have not been repaired, it means that people did not find any surviving Mosheng fruit and seeds after the fire.
Otherwise, this place should be repaired for replanting.
Thor took a deep breath, and this time he did not hesitate. He turned around and asked the coachman to ride as fast as possible to Black Castle Forest.
Normally it would take a day to reach Blackburg Forest, but this time Thor specifically asked the driver to speed up regardless of consumption, and they arrived at the destination in just half a day.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Thor knocked on the door.
It was nearly 5 minutes later that I heard the sound of approaching footsteps.
The door opened, and the tall and slender Mochi Mochi, wearing a specially made black dress, came out.
"Oh my, what a rare guest! It's you. Please come in."
When Mochimochi saw Thor, he immediately showed enthusiasm and moved aside to make way.
Thor nodded and looked back at the driver.
When we walked along that dark forest path again just now, the driver behaved a little strangely.
Thor originally thought that this was due to the psychological trauma caused by the last time the coachman was almost replaced by the mushroom man, but he saw an expression of joy and nostalgia on the coachman's face.
This made Thor a little worried about leaving the coachman outside the Black Castle.
"May I allow my coachman to come in with me?"
"That won't do. That won't do." Unexpectedly, Mochi Mochi refused without hesitation. "It's not that I'm unreasonable. Ordinary people can't enter the Black Castle."
Although Mochi-Mochi said this with a smile, from the determination in the other party's voice, Thor knew that there was no room for turning around this matter.
It seemed that the coachman would definitely not be able to enter the Black Castle. He turned around to look at the coachman, and was thinking about how to accommodate him when he saw the coachman said sincerely, "It's okay, sir, I will wait for you outside."
"Okay, then don't run around," Thor warned.
Thor followed Mochimochi into the Black Castle, and the slender door closed silently.
The driver's eyes suddenly rolled and he said to himself: "I'm not running around, I'm just going to see an old friend."
After saying that, he jumped and ran into the depths of the woods.
Inside the Black Castle, Thor and Mochimochi stood in the long and gorgeous hall.
Perhaps because he had been promoted to level two, Thor was not harassed by the things hidden in the Black Castle this time.
"I received news that you were going to Mobei City, and I was wondering if you would come. But you have changed a lot. This is the first time I have seen a living person who has undergone two witch body transformations in three years." Mochimochi seemed very enthusiastic, with a pair of slender eyes wide open. "That's great, that's great, the little vines I raised have grown up too, can you let your tentacles compete with them?"
It's a pity that Thor is not in the mood to compete with others right now.
He said bluntly: "Mochi Mochi, I came from Mofan Town."
Mochimochi's originally round eyes gradually narrowed and turned into a long slit. He said meaningfully: "Oh, so this is why you came to see me. How is it? Have you seen it? Not bad, right? Not bad, right?"
Thor frowned slightly. Is Mochi-Mochi showing off his killing skills to him?
The images of Ada and Penny flashed through his mind, and his heart tightened. "Then... do you still remember that there was a blind little girl in there? There might be a boy ten years older than her beside her?"
Mochimochi was stunned, and touched his cone-like chin, "I have killed many boys and girls, but there seems to be no blind ones."
“I see…”
When Mochimochi saw Thor's expression, he knew that he was not used to this way of dealing with things. He thought to himself, "This little brat who has been in the wizard tower for too long is still soft-hearted."
"Are they your friends?"
“…I guess so.”
"No!" Mochimochi interrupted Thor, "They are not. Don't be friends with ordinary people, and don't be friends with wizards. You don't know when the former will die because of you, and you don't know when the latter will kill you. You can't control these two kinds of death."
"A wizard who chooses to walk alone has chosen a path. You can have companions, a family, and power, but the premise is that they can help you grow. Other than that, they are all irrelevant."
"You will understand more in the future. If you are lucky enough to become a formal wizard, you can extend your life in dozens of ways. And those ordinary people who find it difficult to live to fifty are just wheat seedlings planted in rice fields every season, providing you with supplies on time. Do you still want to worry about the withering of a wheat seedling?"
He put his long and narrow hand on Thor's shoulder and said earnestly and with a hint of smile: "The people of Mofan Town are just a wheat seedling that has grown crooked. They are not worth your trouble. Since they have sought the protection of the Wizard Tower, they are secretly colluding with the barbarians. This behavior is naked betrayal, and the Wizard Tower does not tolerate betrayal. If we don't teach them a lesson and demonstrate the majesty of the Wizard Tower, won't such things happen more and more in the future? So what we have to do is to uproot the sick wheat seedlings to prevent them from infecting other wheat seedlings."
Thor knew that many wizards were extremely cold-blooded and often treated ordinary people as more expensive witchcraft materials.
There was no need for him to waste his time arguing with Mochimochi about this idea.
However, wizards have good memories. Since Mochimochi said that he has never seen a blind girl, that means he has never seen her.
It seems that Penny and the others left Mofan Town after the barbarians invaded.
Escaped.
As for the other people in Mofan Town, Thor didn't have the energy to care about them.
There was just one thing Thor didn't quite understand: could the majesty of the wizard tower be promoted by relying on neatly arranged graves and tightly closed town gates?
"So those graves outside the town and the sound of waves in the town were all deliberately arranged by you?"
Although Sol did not agree with Mochi Mochi's actions, if the murderer was Mochi Mochi, then he should have a way to enter the town safely.
What Thor needs to think about now is perhaps how to impress him and make him agree to take him into the town to look for the Mosheng Fruit.
However, when Mochi Mochi heard Thor's words, his pair of narrow eyes slowly widened into round ones.
"What are you talking about? I don't seem to understand, I don't understand! Where is the grave? What grave?"
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