According to the city lord, someone in a nearby village was infected with epilepsy, a strange disease that causes flames to come out of the infected person's eyes and makes the person completely crazy. Not only that, this symptom is also contagious. Well, it sounds much more terrifying than the Resident Evil.
The village was actually located in the woods outside the previously dilapidated city wall. After receiving instructions from the city lord, Fang Zheng rode the golden warhorse to the village.
At first, there was nothing special nearby, but when we got closer to the village, strange things started happening.
The first thing that appeared was a few rats... Well, now Fang Zheng was not afraid of the Rat Fire King, because the golden warhorse could crush you to death with just two kicks. However, the rats here were different from those in other places. Both eyes of the rats here were emitting burning flames, and it looked as if their eyes were condensed from flames!
Fang Zheng wanted to catch one to check, but just as the city lord said, these guys with fiery eyes seemed to be completely irrational. A mere mouse didn't even pay attention to Fang Zheng's dragon power. It rushed over to him with a squeaking sound and tried to bite him - so Fang Zheng just crushed it to death.
Unfortunately, the fire in the rat's body was too little, and Fang Zheng couldn't feel anything. So he had to move forward again.
When Fang Zheng arrived at the entrance of the village, the scene in front of him looked even more bizarre.
“What kind of performance art is this?”
Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng scratched his head in confusion. When he first heard the city lord say that people with epilepsy would go crazy, Fang Zheng's first reaction was the warm and hospitable residents of Yanan Town. In fact, he was ready to walk into the village and meet a group of ragged crazy people holding sickles and rakes.
But when Fang Zheng arrived at the village, he saw a group of people kneeling on the ground, holding their heads in their hands, looking up at the sky motionlessly, giving people the feeling that they were like sculptures...
Fang Zheng dismounted from his horse, slowly walked to a "sculpture", and reached out to pat the other person's shoulder.
"Hey, bro? Are you alive?"
“Ouch!!”
At the same time that Fang Zheng was slapping the other person, the man trembled all over, turned around and glared at Fang Zheng. At this time, Fang Zheng also saw that there was also flame burning in the other person's eye sockets!
Not only that, when that guy turned his head, flames suddenly burst out from his eye sockets and flew towards Fang Zheng!
"Oh my god!"
Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng was so scared that he quickly stepped back to avoid the attack. At this time, the villagers around him who seemed to be performing performance art stood up and surrounded Fang Zheng from all directions.
But at the moment, Fang Zheng didn't care about being surrounded by these villagers. On the contrary, he was more concerned about the fire!
That was indeed his first fire!
The primordial fire can burn everything, open up the world, and fuse all things. However, the people here don’t know how they got the primordial fire, and it turned out to be like this?
No matter what, give it back to me first!!
Fang Zheng swung his sword and instantly swept away the fire that shot out of the man's eyes. After all, he was the master of the fire, and if he wanted to take back his own fire, it would be as easy as breathing.
But this time, Fang Zheng did not kill these guys immediately. He had discovered that, although he did not know why, these people with epilepsy seemed to have some kind of connection with his sealed primordial fire. Otherwise, how could the fire keep burning?
Although these people looked skinny and weak, Fang Zheng could easily kill them with one strike of his sword, but after discovering this characteristic, he naturally would not destroy them so easily. Instead, Fang Zheng swung his sword and cut off the hands and feet of these people, then placed them side by side and pointed them at himself.
“Woo…Ah…”
These guys whose heads were burned by the first fire were like zombies, completely losing their minds. At this moment, they just stared at Fang Zheng and tried to attack him. However, their hands and feet were chopped off by Fang Zheng, so now they just opened their mouths and roared desperately, and then sprayed flames from their eye sockets at Fang Zheng.
And this is Fang Zheng’s purpose!
"Yes, that's it! A little more! Harder! Don't stop!!"
Fang Zheng stuck the sword into the ground and waved his hands vigorously at those people. He wanted to take back as much of the primordial fire as possible. The fire on those rats was too little and was useless. But these people were different. Fang Zheng was using them as pumps to extract the fire from the seal!
“Ah…woo!!!”
These guys with burnt brains naturally had no idea what Fang Zheng was talking about, but they still instinctively fired wave after wave of flames at him, and these flames were naturally absorbed by the pitch-black sword - after all, it was originally Fang Zheng's own thing.
"Keep going! It's not over yet! You can't be capable of this!"
Although Fang Zheng wanted to treat them as perpetual motion machines, humans had their limits after all. After emitting two or three waves of flames, the villagers' bodies completely collapsed and were burned into a pile of black ash. However, the sword in Fang Zheng's hand only had a few flames.
"Hey... I've been squeezed dry. No, you guys."
Looking at the villagers who had been burned to ashes, Fang Zheng shook his head helplessly. If possible, he would like to use these small water pipes to collect more primary fire. Unfortunately, the quality of these water pipes was not good, and they disappeared after a while.
After all the villagers died, Fang Zheng did not leave immediately. Instead, he began to wander around the village, looking for clues. After all, everything appeared out of nowhere, just like epilepsy. The wild animals around were all normal, but only the villagers here were infected with epilepsy, so there must be a source of infection.
So Fang Zheng opened the blocked doors of the houses and searched each one one by one. Finally, he found some clues.
According to the records of the people in this village, several months ago, they found a stranger outside the village. At that time, he was unconscious due to a high fever, so the kind-hearted villagers brought him back for treatment. After he opened his eyes, they were surprised to find that there were flames burning in his eyes. Then the flames spurted out and infected the residents of the village. As for where the stranger came from, he did not explain, but from his etiquette, it can be learned that this person seems to live in a village near the royal city.
"The Royal City..."
Fang Zheng touched his chin. Before leaving, the city lord left him a map. According to the map, the royal city was still some distance away from here, and he had to pass through the city of Stonewell. It seemed that the guy named Greg was there.
Forget it, let's take it one step at a time.
After determining the next destination, Fang Zheng rode his golden warhorse to leave the dilapidated village, returning along the same route and heading towards Stonewell City.
After passing the checkpoint, Fang Zheng arrived at the Storm Hill in front of Stonewell City. This place really lived up to its reputation. The wind was blowing so hard that Fang Zheng had just ridden up when he was hit in the face with rain - it actually started to rain?
Fang Zheng certainly didn't want to travel in the storm, but luckily there was a dilapidated wooden house nearby with a bonfire inside. So Fang Zheng rode his horse to the dilapidated wooden house, dismounted and went in.
There was only one woman in the shabby house. She had blonde hair, wore a white robe, and a red headscarf. When she saw Fang Zheng coming in, the girl shrank in surprise and stared at him anxiously.
"Oh, sorry, I'm just passing by and taking shelter from the rain here."
Fang Zheng waved his hand, then sat behind another wall nearby, waiting for the storm to subside.
For a moment, the broken house was completely silent. Apart from the sound of wind and rain outside, there was the crackling sound of the burning bonfire. Fang Zheng leaned against the wall, yawning out of boredom, and then he looked at the girl in front of him.
"Um... why are you alone? Are you going to Stonewell City too?"
“No… that’s not it…”
Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Little Red Riding Hood trembled.
"Everyone is dead... those who came to the border with me and fought for me... their hands, feet, and heads were all cut off and turned into parts of spiders..."
"spider?"
Hearing this, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment, and at this time Little Red Riding Hood raised her head and looked at Fang Zheng.
"Are you going to Stonewell City too? Are you listening to the good words of the man in the white mask? Or do you want to become a part of the spider?"
"Well……"
Looking at Little Red Riding Hood in front of him, Fang Zheng was speechless. He also found that this girl seemed a little nervous. But she didn't seem to care and just continued talking.
"If so, then I will be the same as you, but I don't have the courage - having my hands and feet chopped off, my head chopped off, it's too scary... I really want to be like everyone else, but I'm too scared, I'm too cowardly..."
"No, no, no, this is normal, right? A normal person wouldn't want to become a ghost like that, right?"
Hearing this, Fang Zheng couldn't help but complain. Which normal person would want to cut himself into a human stick? Is he mentally ill?
“Huff…”
Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Little Red Riding Hood chuckled, then she reached out and took out a small bottle of ashes.
"I have a request. Can you please take this child with you on the trip? It's too pitiful for her to accompany such a coward like me..."
"Uh... is this ashes? What is the use of this thing?"
Looking at the small urn handed over by the other party, Fang Zheng was confused, while Little Red Riding Hood was stunned for a moment, then took out a bell from her arms and handed it over.
"This is?"
"This is a soul-summoning bell. It can summon souls from the ashes that have not returned to the Golden Tree. Those souls will temporarily recognize you as their master and recreate the way they fought in their lifetime... Moreover, the souls seem to like you very much. I think the child will be very happy too."
"Yeah?"
Fang Zheng took the bell and shook it gently. Then he saw a flash of light before his eyes. Then, a huge, transparent, glowing jellyfish emerged from it. It stretched out its tentacles, shyly touched Fang Zheng, and then retracted them. Seeing this scene, Little Red Riding Hood also smiled.
"It seems that she really likes you. Then I'll leave this child - Kulala - in your care..."
"Leave it to me. This little guy is really cute."
Fang Zheng reached out his hand and gently touched the jellyfish's head. The jellyfish also stretched out two tentacles, placed them on its head, and lowered its head like a shy little girl.
Soon, the storm gradually subsided, and Fang Zheng stood up and prepared to leave. At this moment, Little Red Riding Hood spoke again and called Fang Zheng.
"Ah, sir, if you are going to Stonewell City, please help convey to everyone who has become a pupa - I love you. Although I am still very scared, sooner or later I will become exactly the same as you. I am finally less afraid of pain..."
"Uh... I'll try to look for it."
Facing Little Red Riding Hood's words, Fang Zheng didn't know what to say for a moment. He just nodded at Little Red Riding Hood, then walked out of the cabin, jumped on his horse, and galloped forward with the jellyfish beside him, heading towards the direction of Stonewell City.