Chapter 557 Ant Acid Meat Nest
Thor followed the mountain mover along the main road and walked into the nearby ancient forest of survivors.
However, the man who climbed the mountain took a slight detour and avoided the place where the seven blindfolded ordinary people had appeared.
Thor followed him into the woods and halfway up the hill.
Then the donkey cart stopped, and the driver drove over the mountain. The man stood on the frame, lifted up the black leather, and threw the boy on top under the roots of a big tree.
The donkey cart started again, leaving the motionless boy where he was, and continued to go deeper into the ancient forest.
But Thor did not follow, and stayed beside the boy.
He squatted down and checked the boy's mouth, nose, and eyelids, and finally found a half-finger-long wooden thorn at the back of the boy's neck.
The wooden splinter penetrated shallowly into the skin and hung there.
He pulled out the thorn, sniffed the scent, and smiled faintly.
"Is this what they use to put people in suspended animation?"
"Is this an underground transaction? If discovered, it can easily turn a person into a real death."
Thor looked at the boy's hands and feet again.
Although the other person was only eleven or twelve years old, his hands were covered with calluses, obviously he worked frequently.
As he watched, Thor exclaimed, "Huh?"
He squeezed the boy's skull and spine, "This boy has been accelerated."
Although the boy looks like a teenager, his actual age is probably only seven or eight years old.
He was like the wheat seedlings in the field, being helped to grow! After all of Thor's efforts, the boy still didn't wake up.
If this continues, his fake death will turn into real death.
"It seems that people doing this business don't care much about the survival rate of the goods."
The bearded man used some connections to fake the boy's death and sent him out of the settlement. The climber and the old man with the flower pot guarding the gate should know about this.
They turn a blind eye and most likely benefit from it.
Judging from their current indifference to the boy, the vested interests have already been obtained, so they naturally don't need to pay too much attention to the entrusted goods.
Life and death are determined by fate.
Or better yet, death.
No hidden dangers will be left.
Seeing the vitality in the boy's body gradually disappear, Thor suddenly raised his hand and snapped his fingers. A healing spell was cast, causing the boy who was about to step into the abyss of death to suddenly open his eyes.
“Cough cough cough cough… cough cough cough…”
The boy just opened his eyes and started coughing violently. After crawling back from the checkpoint of death, his body had suffered considerable damage.
When the boy finally caught his breath, he saw a man in a wizard robe squatting beside him in his peripheral vision.
Facing Thor, who had just saved his life, the boy's eyes showed fear.
He subconsciously crawled backwards, trying to get away from Thor, but slammed into a big tree behind him.
A few dead branches and leaves fell from overhead.
"Don't be afraid. Being afraid is useless. I ask questions and you answer them."
The boy's back was pressed tightly against the tree. He slid his throat with difficulty and swallowed his saliva, but his mouth was so dry and painful.
After a moment, he regained his composure and nodded.
He stared at Thor like a little rabbit just out of its nest.
"That bearded man is your father?"
The boy hesitated.
"I'll kill you if you lie." Thor's voice was flat.
Faced with such a death threat, the boy did not feel the fear and panic he had when he first discovered Thor standing beside him.
"Yes."
"When I came here, I saw you running away, but someone behind you held you down and nailed two holes in your feet. What were you doing?"
"They said I was old enough to make a meat nest. I saw a hole punched in the sole of the boy's foot and two ants were put in there. He screamed in pain. I was scared and ran out."
"What's this splinter about?"
Thor held up the wooden splinter he had pulled from the back of the boy's neck in front of him.
The boy looked at the splinter blankly and shook his head.
"Then why were you thrown out again?"
The boy recalled for a moment.
"After I was captured, they put an ant on the sole of my foot. But as soon as the ant crawled into my foot, I passed out from the pain and didn't know what happened."
"Oh, your father had someone secretly send you out, but didn't he tell you how to live after leaving the gathering place?"
The boy still looked confused, but Thor could clearly hear his suddenly quickened heartbeat.
"It turns out that living in a place like this, all the real naive people would have died long ago." Thor shook his head in his heart.
He didn't continue to pursue the question. I just said this to tell the boys that I have caught your little braid and it's time to ask some deeper questions.
"What is a meat nest?"
"Doesn't this settlement allow ordinary people inside to leave?"
"Do many wizards leave after coming here?"
The boy answered some of the questions, but for others he just shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.
After digging out almost all the information from the boy's mind, Thor stood up again.
He looked at the boy leaning weakly against the big tree, took out some food from the storage container and threw it at him.
The small package that the boy's father gave to the climber was probably the food he intended for the boy.
However, since the climbers had no intention of letting the boy survive, they naturally took the food in the package.
"This is your reward for answering my questions. Of course, if you tell the truth, you can get more."
After saying this, Thor turned around and prepared to continue into the mountains.
He planned to go find some camptothecodon termites.
If the formic acid of termites can really produce a magical drug that has no side effects and can allow wizards to enter a high-speed brain functioning state, it will surely become a rare witchcraft material in the future and be fought over by many wizards.
It would be better for him to start researching now.
However, since this bow-backed termite is so magical, there must be someone guarding it. Thor must be careful not to miss any traces, so as not to be targeted by the second-level wizards in the settlement.
Just as Thor took two steps, he heard the boy behind him calling him.
"Master Wizard, please wait a moment."
Thor stopped and looked back.
"Sir, can I, can I..."
"No." Thor knew what the boy wanted to ask, but he refused without hesitation.
When he examined the boy's body just now, he found that the boy's spirit and body, who had been prematurely matured, had long been badly damaged.
Not to mention becoming an apprentice, it is even difficult to live healthily to the age of twenty.
Unless he can have the opportunity like the good-for-nothing protagonist in the novel, encounter some rare treasure, cleanse his marrow with the Book of Changes, no, it should be said that he can reorganize his spiritual body, awaken his magical talent, and amplify his elemental perception, otherwise he will not even have the opportunity to learn a little bit.
The boy wanted to fight for it again, but when he looked up, he met Thor's eyes, which were as calm as the deep sea. He could no longer utter the plea in his mouth.
"He's quite smart, what a pity." Seeing that the boy didn't know what was going on and didn't continue to plead, Thor turned and left.
He walked forward in the forest and released Xiaozao.
"Be careful not to alarm the people and creatures here."
The small algae jumped to the ground, burrowed into the soil and disappeared.
About half an hour later, it suddenly came out again, and its black tentacles wrapped around Thor's ankles.
Thor followed Xiaozao's strength and moved forward silently.
Not long after, he saw several familiar figures in the woods ahead.
They were several thin figures with black scarves covering their eyes and shackles on their feet.
The leader also carried a lantern and moved forward silently.
According to the boy, these people should be the meat nests used to collect formic acid.
Thor quickly went around to the front of the seven people, but found that these seven people were not the same seven he had seen before.
"It seems that most of the ordinary people in this small settlement are candidate materials for making meat nests."
(End of this chapter)
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