Invincible Chapter 987

Over the mountains, when Zhao Wenrui found the hunter's hut, he knew that civilization was not far away.

Not giving the details of the hunter's hut did not impress him much, because the equipment inside is basically unusable and broken, and the seemingly clear water in the water tank contains dart frog toxin.

The hunter's hut represented the ethos of a circle, and even a culture. If it was so vicious, if it didn't just happen that someone deliberately did evil, it would mean that the atmosphere of the whole circle would be stink.

After turning over two more mountains, Zhao Wenrui found relatively new traces of people, and then there were small trails that he often walked around, and then there were cooking smoke and villages.

There are more than 20 families. The house is built around a mound tens of meters high. It is roughly divided into three floors. The top floor seems to be a functional facility. There are bell towers, public houses, stables, and a few hundred square meters. In the square, the ground is paved with stone slabs. Judging from the bundles of wheat straw piled up on the edge, it probably also serves as a grain drying yard.

Under the top floor, according to the houses on the same level, it is divided into upper and lower floors, with a roughly circular village road. The houses on the upper floor are relatively brighter, but not much better.

Zhao Wenrui noticed several key points:

First, these houses have stone foundations, supplemented by mortar, which fit well, and it took thought and effort.

Second, every household has a fireplace, and its overall shape is like a boiler made of stone. It represents a Western-style stove, and it is still used in modern times.

Third, the roof is covered with clay-fired tiles instead of thatch or wooden tiles.

The combination of the three, and their appearance in this mountain village on the edge of civilization, means relatively mature architectural skills and not low productivity.

You must know that on the earth, even in the 20th century, some remote mountain villages in Eastern Europe may not have such decent houses.

Combined with the costumes of the punishers he saw in the ruins of the mountain city, he believes that the civilization he is about to face at least has the productivity of the British Victorian period, and it is even possible during World War I and World War II. There are differences in the form of expression.

Zhao Wenrui also noticed the thick and tall stone wall in this mountain village. He roughly calculated that the circumference of the stone wall was at least two kilometers, with an average height of 3 meters and a thickness of more than half a meter. There are thorns entangled with thorns, anti-climbing piles, and fixed scaffolding for people to stand and walk behind the wall. This is a cost-intensive project that is definitely a huge burden for more than 20 families. It is obviously not used to prevent wild animals. of.

It's not against wild animals, so what is it against? people?

Not quite, this is a very simple arithmetic problem. There are more than 20 families, even if each family has 8 people, it is only 200. Men, women, old and young are all in battle, and they are divided into a defense line of more than 2000 meters, with an interval of 10 meters.

To put it bluntly, with such a long line of defense, just daily patrols will be very difficult for the total manpower of this mountain village, let alone start a war.

"It's not as intelligent as humans, and the number is not small. They like to act in groups, but they don't have any rules. They basically swarm up... It seems to be a sub-intelligent creature like goblins. But if goblins are so rampant, can they still farm and hunt?"

After thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure it out. Zhao Wenrui could only lament his limited brain power.

After the observation was over and after some thought, he decided to get in touch with the people here.

As a traveler who once lived in the era of information explosion, he naturally knows that a mountain village does not necessarily mean simple folk customs, but it may also be savage and brutal.

Especially for a person like him who is alone and carries a big bag, which is indeed filled with valuable mountain goods, he can easily become the target of greedy people.

Well, since we know that people's hearts are sinister and can't stand the test, let's start with ourselves first, such as the issue of not revealing money.

So Zhao Wenrui deliberately hid the backpack and even the large weapons.

After thinking about it, he made a walking stick with wood-plastic techniques, and put a dagger in his leg pocket.

This is the only iron, well crafted of magic copper, it looks very good,

But not to the point of being greedy.

After simply combing and dressing up, he carried a small pouch on his back and walked towards the village along the path.

The village has three gates, and there is no north gate, because there are mountains stretching over there.

Zhao Wenrui walked through the west gate, and the door was open. There was a person on the gate, wearing a hard leather vest on his upper body, with a waist knife and a crossbow in his hand.

When Zhao Wenrui walked in, he asked, "Who is it, why are you here?"

Zhao Wenrui, who had used the spell of 'Knowing the Language', raised his hands high, and replied loudly without any threat, "Passing by, it's almost noon, I want to rest."

The man stared at Zhao Wenrui expressionlessly for a few seconds, hooked his hands, indicating that he could pass, then walked to a corner of the top of the gatehouse, and rang the bell three times at intervals. Zhao Wenrui didn't know what this meant What do you mean, but realized that the bell is actually a magic item.

Although it is the lowest-grade one, it is more magical than ordinary bells, and the sound is more concentrated and spreads farther. Of course, in Zhao Wenrui's view, the key point is that such artifacts need to be maintained by extraordinary people.

In other words, even if there are mobile defenders like quack doctors, it means that the use of extraordinary power is generalized and popularized.

It is very possible that extraordinary power is the primary productive force of this civilization.

Zhao Wenrui entered the gate of the village, and the guard on duty pointed out: "Don't wander around, go to the public housing." He pointed to the top of the earth mountain.

After Zhao Wenrui thanked him, he walked along the stone steps like the top of a mountain.

The stone steps are not too wide, and there are gentle slopes hardened by stone slabs on both sides. Obviously, it is a driveway, but judging from the overall design, it should not be pulled by large animals, but by people.

"Without horse trails, how can big animals get to the top floor?" Zhao Wenrui was puzzled.

When he got to the top, he saw a famous woman looking at him with burning eyes. She seemed to be in her forties, with thick arms and thick legs and a bucket waist, with tonnage and strength.

This one is as good as the gatekeeper, with a deadpan face and no wavering in his eyes.

Zhao Wenrui held his cane under his arm, opened his hands, walked towards the other party, and said to the woman again with a smile as he said to the gatekeeper before. will leave.

But before he could get closer, the woman stretched out her arms and pointed at the public housing, but refused to say a word.

Zhao Wenrui said heartily: "Okay, I have seen some of the market anyway, try to be considerate of you, just treat you as rare strangers, and be wary of strangers."

He nodded to the woman, and then walked towards the public house.

The public house is the largest house in the entire village, and its function is similar to that of a town hall, used for gatherings or discussing various affairs. The public housing in this mountain village is specifically composed of a square hall large enough to accommodate all villagers, a horizontal house and a joint. The bell tower is located at the junction.

Zhao Wenrui can even imagine the division of functions inside. The lobby is used for reception, the interior of the building is divided into several offices, and the junction is the corridor...

As it turned out, he was wrong, and wrong very much.

The hall can also be understood as being used for reception, but it is only used for receiving enemies.

Not long after he entered, a thick gate fell, completely sealing the entrance and exit.

The shutters that closed the windows also fell together, and the entire hall was immediately plunged into darkness.

Immediately after that was arrow shooting, which was launched by the mechanism. The specific targets of the shooting were also different from several directions. It should be calculated according to the situation, and there were almost no dead ends.

However, Zhao Wenrui is very vigilant and has made sufficient preparations in advance to deal with various situations. Facing this round of blows, he just shook his body and immediately switched to the shadow plane. The arrow pierced through his phantom, and the 'Duoduo' was nailed to the inner wall of the hall, the sawdust splashed, and it was very powerful. The military crossbow that Zhao Wenrui knew had the best effect.

After a while, someone asked angrily, "Where's the person?"

Immediately after, someone replied: "I don't know, it disappeared in the blink of an eye."

Zhao Wenrui cursed in his heart: "It turns out that you have emotions."

He didn't show up in a hurry, and he didn't explore the whole picture of this public housing through the shadow plane. He just stayed there, in the interlayer between the shadow plane and the material plane. , sheltering in it, but still can appear to have ample space.

For Yingde, this is a basic ability, and the vision is also considered clear, which is equivalent to being separated by a layer of tulle. The disadvantage is that once it is blasted or pulled out by extraordinary skills that understand technology, it will be stiff for less than a second. If a master fights, this stiffness of less than a second is also fatal.

Zhao Wenrui's patient waiting paid off in less than half an hour.

The people who murdered him got impatient. They first lit the oil lamps for lighting, then opened the top skylight, and then opened the shutters of the doors and windows. More than a dozen people carrying weapons came in to check.

"Damn it, it's really gone. How did it disappear? Could it be that the anti-transportation device that was purchased at a huge price is a fake?"

Zhao Wenrui sighed in admiration, and slandered: "You are very professional!"

I have to say that these people gave him an external temperament and gave him a very bad first impression.

With a full face, fierce eyes, and a ferocious demeanor, you don't need makeup to play a bandit, and at least you are an elite backbone at the level of a small boss. If you have a talent for modeling, you can also hold the role of a second or third leader. living.

Although there is a saying that one should not judge a person by appearance, there is also a saying that appearance (temperament) comes from the heart. Combined with personal experience, Zhao Wenrui believes in the latter.

He was even thinking this way: "No wonder it's deserted. Only two of them showed up. They are probably the kindest ones in the village, right? Just whoever receives them will definitely be regarded as a bandit's lair, not a mountain village, right?" ?”

In any case, Zhao Wenrui had no intention of being kind from the moment these people tried to harm him without asking indiscriminately.

It is popular among modern time-traveling parties to report their grievances directly, and he also thinks there is nothing wrong with doing so. He believes that most of the deeds these people have done are worthy of the treatment of torture and killing.

So he started to move, and found the mechanism control room very easily. It was next to the hall, the connection part he thought before. Road, unhindered.

The mechanism control room is naturally occupied by people. Zhao Wenrui controlled the Shadow Vine, and suddenly there was a black disgust churning in the nothingness. Unfortunately, the three people in the room couldn't see it from the perspective of sight.

Then suddenly, a bundle of vines wrapped in lead-gray magic fog sprayed out, and then wrapped around the three of them like a net shot from a net shooter, and then coiled and tightened.

These vines are not only rapidly growing thicker, but also grow thorns, which pierce through clothes and even leather armor during the tightening process, penetrate into the flesh, draw bleeding holes, and inject paralyzing toxins.

The three of them only screamed for a while, then lost the strength to continue howling, and fell limply. Ren Long's vines continued to coil and writhe around his body like worms.

However, their cries were still heard by the people in the hall.

It turned out that although the two rooms were not connected, sound holes were specially set up.

So before Zhao Wenrui heard someone's distraught noise, it was actually the other party's intention. If he couldn't hold his breath and tried to follow the sound, find the door and destroy it, then he would be caught, and a special mechanism would be activated.

"Quick, get out!" Among the group of people in the hall, the one who reacted quickly realized that there was something wrong in the control room of the mechanism, immediately reminded the others, and rushed to the entrance.

But still slow.

Before Zhao Wenrui started, he had observed that the controller was not complicated, so he just pushed the thickest lever.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’ All the gates and shutters on the other side of the hall fell.

The people in the hall were quite calm, they didn't use weapons to smash against the gate, but immediately turned around and ran to the central area, which is not only a relatively safe area, there is no flap trap, and it also corresponds to the skylight.

Of course, this kind of design is not because of good intentions, but in case the target stretches out superbly, and the flipped crossbow arrows can't do anything to the opponent. After dealing with a series of organs, it is bound to find that the central area is safer. At that time, they can pass through the skylight and attack from a high position.

But at this moment, they wanted to escape from the skylight by building a ladder.

Zhao Wenrui naturally wouldn't let them do what they wanted.

But this time, he failed to pull the control lever correctly at once. First, he activated the flaps around him, and some unlucky ghost who reacted slowly and was not fast enough was turned into the spear pit. Then the poisonous smoke mechanism was triggered again, but because the corresponding cigarette bag was not in place, there were two 'clicks', and there was no movement.

Then the skylight mechanism was successfully activated, and the skylight closed, so that someone who was about to succeed fell straight from heaven to hell. He tried to escape by force, but failed because of the lack of leverage of the ladder, and almost had his fingers pinched off.

Not long after, the group of people who knew they were being cheated were still begging softly. The general idea was that their village was fighting with a neighboring village over the ownership of a river that was related to drinking water and farming water. They thought that Zhao Wenrui was The spies hired by the other party are like this.

Zhao Wenrui really wanted to follow their words: "I am a spy, let's see what they make up next."

But in the end, I chose to simply ignore it.

Because as long as they open their mouths, more or less information will be leaked, so they simply keep silent and let them guess for themselves, then question, and then make up their own imaginations. This is a more appropriate way to deal with it.

He also ignored the three people in the control room, letting them continue to taste the numbness, bondage, and itching and pain.

Using vines to seal the portal from the inside through the weaving method, Zhao Wenrui entered the shadow plane again and explored in the direction of the building connected to the control room.

Only then did I realize that this place was not divided into offices at all, but a prison, and there was also a dungeon.

"What kind of bullshit mountain village is this? Could it be that it's really a den of bandits?" Zhao Wenrui frowned and decided to find out.