A two-wheeled vehicle that looks like a cart, with a sturdy donkey-like animal pulling it in front.
Hu Lun was tied to the car and returned to the nearest city with eight wild explorers.
Along the way, from forest to wilderness, to the gradual emergence of roads and villages, and then to the emergence of the outline of the city, the changes along the way are enough to show that the sociality of the Ridgecrest people has been very perfect.
In fact, Hu Lun had woken up halfway, but he did not yell or try to escape. The emptiness of magic power made him feel weak, and the unstable space cracks he experienced also left him with hidden injuries.
Since these guys caught him and didn't kill him while he was unconscious, they must have their own purpose, maybe to meet the person in power, which was also Hu Lun's purpose anyway.
The outline of the city is becoming more and more clear. If someone is here, they may feel a strange sense of familiarity.
Towering city walls and square buildings.
However, this also shows that this race may not have any special powers, at least not very common.
The sloping roof is conducive to drainage, and the square shape is the easiest shape to control and build.
Along the way, Hu Lun occasionally squinted his eyes and secretly observed the outside world. The more he looked, the more excited he became. This was a highly socialized and civilized world, and he did not sense any powerful power holders.
In such a world, those at the top of power often control enormous resources, and it is easy for them to form huge economies with the power of the same country to engage in transactions, saving more effort and gaining greater benefits.
The key is that the intelligent creatures here are likely to be "country bumpkins", and such creatures are most likely to make huge trade profits by hunting exotic goods.
The city gate was very close, and some people who looked like soldiers were guarding there, but strangely, the soldiers were divided into two types, one wearing dark yellow leather armor, and the other wearing white armor.
What's even stranger is that there are some guys in robes in the perception. These guys have neither weapons nor high physical fitness, nor do they have any special powers, and they don't look like officials collecting tolls.
This puzzled Hu Lun, but it was none of his business, so he just continued to pretend to be unconscious.
The speed of recovering magic power on Earth is actually very exaggerated. If the magic power of the magical creatures in the outside world is exhausted and there is no sufficient nourishment, it often takes a long time to recover.
Unlike on Earth, a magic controller who has exhausted all his magic power can often recover most of it by sleeping for a few days.
Hu Lun was already injured at the moment, and the various free elemental forces in this world were neither numerous nor active, so the magic power was still motionless.
Outside the city gate, there were many teams entering and leaving the city, both individuals and groups. Some would be questioned, while others would pass easily.
The two-wheeled cart rumbled forward, and the eight explorers slowly approached the city gate.
"stop!"
When there were eight explorers, the guards stepped forward to stop them. It was normal for people carrying weapons to be questioned a little more, and the explorers didn't take it seriously at first.
A dozen soldiers in leather armor all looked at them vigilantly with their weapons raised, while the white-armored guards stood a little further away.
"Who are you? What's in the car?"
A leading soldier shouted.
The older explorer immediately came out to explain.
"We are all explorers from this city. We have information in the city hall. We just came back from the wild. This is what we caught in the wild. We don't know what it is. We are going to present it to the city lord."
The soldiers and the people in long robes around were all observing Aksen on the cart. The leading soldier was whispering something with the man in long robes.
His body shape, skin color and appearance were so strange, and he was wearing clothes. It would be strange if he didn't attract attention.
However, the words "Dedicated to the City Lord" have attracted the special attention of those robed men. Several of them exchanged glances, as if they were confirming something.
Then suddenly, a man in a long robe behind him pointed at Aksen and shouted.
"Heretic!! This thing might be heresy!! We need to hand it over to the bishop for a decision!! Catch them!!"
Rub rub rub~~
The surrounding white-armored guards all drew their weapons and surrounded the explorer.
The eight explorers were horrified. Heresy was a serious crime in the church. If it was proven, they could even lose their lives!
They wanted to draw their weapons but were persuaded by the elders to suppress their impulse. It was unwise to confront the church.
"We are the legitimate resident explorers of this city-state, and nominally the reserve soldiers of the city lord. You can't just arrest us like this!"
"You are trying to send heretics into the residence of God's believers! Do you have any guilt to defend yourself to the Bishop?"
The man in the robe waved his hand, and the white-armored guards were ready to arrest the eight people who dared not resist.
The soldiers around the city gate looked at each other, but in the end no one made any unnecessary moves.
The explorers breathed heavily for a few times, and finally surrendered. Naturally, Hu Lun's cart became the new owner.
As they were being escorted towards the cathedral in the city, a bearded man among the city gate guards exchanged glances with his companion, who nodded and quietly trotted away from his post.
…
"What!? The church is going too far, too rampant!! Even the God of Light wouldn't treat his believers like this!!"
Inside the castle in the center of the city, a man with long hair and short beard was roaring in anger.
This was a luxurious hall with a long carpet in the middle. There was only one seat in the entire hall, and the man was standing next to the seat.
"Heno, watch your words!"
Sitting next to the man was an old man in fancy clothes, who was the mayor of the city.
"But father, this is the fiefdom of our family for generations! Now it seems as if the church is its owner! Their demon hunter corps is even stationed in the city, and their number is even close to our own army!!"
"Heresy, heresy, heresy!!! This is the excuse for everything. Last time a trade caravan was raided in an inn in the same way. Who knows if they have their eyes on other people's goods!"
The man looked at the guard who came to report.
"This time they just captured a monster wearing clothes and took away our expedition team! No! I have to go to the church to get him back!!"
The guard who came to report the incident lowered his head and dared not speak.
The old city lord sitting in the chair pondered and said nothing.
"Heno, it would be good to go and express my attitude, at least to make the bishop fair."
"Father?"
Heno looked at his father in surprise. He had only said that in anger and did not expect his father to really challenge the church.
"They really crossed the line this time!"
The old city lord's face was gloomy.
"Okay! I'll be there right away! Guards, follow me!"
The tall Heno grabbed his sword-shaped weapon and walked out of the hall quickly with a team of more than a dozen guards.
Apparently he still had some sense of propriety, only bringing guards worthy of his noble status.
After passing through the arched corridor, passing through a closed door and passing by the castle courtyard, Heno found that his son, who had just reached adulthood, was practicing weapon combat against a wooden stake.
Each move was very serious, but seemed a little weak.
"Blanty, come with me!"
"ah?"
"Come here! This is your grandfather's order. Come with me to the church to reason!"
Young Blanche was stunned for a moment, but didn't say much. He sheathed his sword and followed his father.
The pointed end is good for stabbing, the blades on both sides are good for cutting, the handle is good for gripping, and the guard prevents the hand from accidentally grasping the blade.
When weapons develop to a certain extent, they all converge. Except for some differences in style, basically, this kind of weapon is not much different from the swords on Earth.
…
There were already quite a few onlookers gathering in the square outside the cathedral, which made Heno, who had rushed over, feel uneasy.
"Get out of the way!! Get out of the way!" "Get out of the way!! Lord Heno, please pass!"
The guards used their bodies and unsheathed weapons to separate the onlookers around them, allowing Heno and Blante behind to pass through.
In the square, there stood a metal stake, and Hu Lun was tied to it with something like an iron chain.
"Assholes!!! You are a bunch of despicable bumpkins from another world!!! You are a bunch of barbaric beasts, you will smash them!!! I am the great Axnisen merchant, a powerful magical creature!!! You actually want to burn me to death!!!"
"Ding-ling, ding-ling, ding-ling..."
The iron chains rattled constantly, and there was even a creaking sound that made your teeth ache.
Hu Lun struggled and yelled wildly on the iron pillar. As his magic power had not yet recovered, he only used Aksen's native language, which sounded extremely harsh to others' ears and was completely incomprehensible.
"This is a despicable and barbaric uncivilized place! Let me go now!..."
Hu Lun was roaring over there, and his ferocious appearance made the surrounding onlookers subconsciously step back, and they whispered about the horrible "heretic".
Some people in long robes and those who looked like soldiers in white armor were carefully moving in the field, while others were loading firewood there.
The eight explorers were tied up in a corner of the square. When they saw Heno, hope flashed in their eyes.
"Slow down!!!"
Heno's huge roar suddenly sounded in the crowd, and then the guards pushed the crowd aside, and a group of people from the City Lord's Mansion walked towards the square from outside.
Seeing this change, Hu Lun gradually calmed down.
Heno took a look at the thing tied to the iron pole. It was about the size of a child and was indeed wearing clothes with many small pockets. Apart from its strange appearance, it looked harmless.
"Haha, you're going to burn a little fellow like this at the stake? Let me reason with you, Bishop! About the arbitrary arrest of the expedition team and the confiscation of the spoils they presented to my father."
A robed priest looked at Heno.
"The bishop was seriously injured by this harmless little creature you mentioned. He is still receiving emergency treatment! Will the city lord protect the criminal who hurt the bishop of the Supreme God?"
"Assholes!! They wanted to steal my vest!! They were the ones who offended me first!! Assholes, you still have the nerve to say that!!!"
Hullen yelled again.
Although Blantai didn't understand it, he felt that it was refuting the priest's words.
His father Heno looked at the little monster in clothes with some shock. This thing actually seriously injured the bishop? Could it be that the church was making it up?
“Get started!!”
When the priest saw that the combustible materials had been loaded, he ignored Heno and the others and directly gave the order to ignite.
Several white-armored soldiers poured a pungent oil onto the firewood and directly ignited the firewood pile in front of Hu Lun's horrified eyes.
"NO!!!! NO!!! Aa ...
“Crackle…Crackle…”
The friction of the chains became more and more intense, frightening the onlookers.
Heno clenched his fists, but finally did not try to stop it.
"Save me!!! Save me!!! I will repay you, I will repay you!!! I am from the Aknisen clan, a trader in the myriad worlds, I came to this world with kindness!!! Save me!!!"
Faced with a life-and-death situation, Hu Lun squeezed out some magic power from his soul and suddenly used magic to shock Heno.
"It's talking!!" "Oh my god!!"
“It can talk!!”
"what to do!!"
The priests around were sweating and felt a strong sense of tension and fear.
"Leave it alone!!! Anyone who dares to save it is a heretic!! It seriously injured the bishop!!!"
Heno tried to take action several times, but was stopped by the guards around him. Blante on the side held the hilt of the sword tightly but did not have the courage to draw it.
“Roar~~~~~~~~~~”
Aksen's roar was extremely loud at this moment.
"You barbaric, despicable and lowly civilization!!! You filthy world, ridiculous false god worshippers!!! I curse you!!! I curse you!!!"
"Boom~~"
The magic power squeezed in the soul exploded, a chain broke, and the burning flame was extinguished in an instant.
“Roar~~~~”
"Quick, quick, pour fuel on it!!! Stop it and don't let it run away!!! It's the enemy of God!! It's a demon!!!"
More than a dozen long weapons stabbed at the struggling Hu Lun, but they were unable to penetrate his small body and could only penetrate his flesh.
"You...you barbarians..."
The woodpile was ignited again with fuel.
Hu Lun had no strength left. The burning flames burned his body and pain lingered around it.
There was flames all around him and his consciousness began to blur. He looked down and saw the logo of the Dawn Merchant Corps on the vest was still clearly visible.
With the last bit of his energy and magic, he chose to burst open one of the vest pockets.
"Bang~"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Seven or eight objects emitting white light shot out towards the surroundings in an instant.
Some of them penetrated directly into the crowd and even injured onlookers, some were nailed to the wall outside the square, and some flew to unknown places.
On the burning iron frame, a human-shaped object was continuing to burn, and there was no sound at all.
The fire burned for a long time and finally burned the so-called "heretic" to ashes, except for the small vest on his body that was not damaged at all.
…
On Earth, at the headquarters of the Dawn Association, Qin Xiaoxia, who was leisurely playing games, was suddenly stunned.
When the "calling accessories" came out of the "insulated" environment of Aksen's vest pocket, he felt a new and different world.
"Such a strange aura, has anyone successfully found an undiscovered alien world?"
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