Chapter 14 Ruins

As we all know, no matter how the human brain evolves, it will always have some small problems at some point.

For example: when sweeping the floor, put the broom in a corner, pick up the garbage shovel and suddenly forget where the broom is...

When I was on the phone, I unknowingly stood on the sofa, talking on the phone in a strange posture...

When I was thinking about something, I unknowingly took a strange thing in my hand...

Andrea was in a similar state just now. Looking at Xiang En's finger, her mind inexplicably circulated the image of Xiang En sucking her finger, causing her action to be faster than her thoughts, and she bit it with one bite.

In the end, she simply gave up on herself, closed her eyes and pretended to be an ostrich, and after drinking the sweet dew, she completely gave up thinking.

It wasn't until Xiang En reminded her that she faced the embarrassment of reality again...

Andrea, who turned her back to Xiang En, had red ears and paddled the raft stiffly. She didn't dare to look behind her. But after the raft hit the floating corpse a few times, the feeling of redness disappeared.

Xiang En was also silent all the way until the afternoon when the two of them crossed the gentle lake and came to a high stone wall.

The high wall is square and upright, completely blocking the overflowing lake water, and also blocking the way out of the Warcraft Forest.

Looking up at the high wall made of condensed earth elements, this almost completely confirms the fact that the archmages of D'Aer City did it on purpose.

Even if the high wall of the earth element is more than ten meters above the waterline, the height is close to ten meters, and the wall surface is as smooth as a polished marble slab. Such a spectacle must have come from the hands of the archmage.

Andrea stabbed the high wall with the dagger, but the dagger was twisted a little, and she didn't continue to try after that.

Climbing is not advisable, and in the end they climbed away on the hillside next to the high wall of the earth element.

Apart from the original road behind the mountains, there were only a large number of traces left by wild beasts and people fleeing. The two followed these traces and started heading north.

The closest town to the flooded Great Lakes was about 60 kilometers away, and they had to travel very far to see human settlements.

The territory of the entire empire explains what it means to have a vast land and sparse population, and communication is not convenient.

It has only been two and a half days since the city of D'Aire was flooded, and those who escaped the flood area probably have just fled to other towns.

On the way, Xiang En and Andrea finally found the stream, and after drinking a lot, they forgot the embarrassment before and continued on the road.

At night, the two lit a bonfire next to the road pressed by the carriage, and they still ate magic bread.

From the time they left Lake D'Aire in the afternoon until it got dark, the two of them didn't find any creatures around except bugs. There were bloodstains on the road, but they didn't find any dead bodies.

Everything seemed so quiet, as if the world had forgotten the two of them. After leaving the range of Lake D'Eyre, the two of them still had a strange sense of trance.

I was almost killed by the flood not long ago, and now I escaped unharmed...

oh!

It can't be said that he is safe and sound, Xiang En's lower back stabbed by dead wood is still painful, and Andrea's forehead is also left with a scab of blood, and her palms have become rougher than before.

Women in the warrior class basically don't have soft hands, and basic chopping practice is enough for them to get calloused hands.

Compared with the "wild" female fighters, Andrea's skin is fairer.

"Andrea, go to bed first, I'll keep watch until midnight." Xiang En clapped his hands, shaking off the falling crumbs of the bread, and let the drowsy Andrea rest first.

When she was in a coma before, Andrea kept watch at night, and with the fear at that time, after leaving the lake, she couldn't hold on anymore.

Andrea didn't try to be brave, she just said, "Call me Anli."

He leaned against the tree trunk and closed his eyes.

It was calm in the first half of the night. Perhaps the beasts that escaped from the Lake D’Aer area chased the human footprints and left. Perhaps the mutated terrain made the beasts feel uneasy and decided to stay away from their homeland to find a new settlement.

But no matter what, neither of them triggered any accidents throughout the night.

Not only this night, but during the subsequent two consecutive days of traveling, neither of them encountered any living creatures other than bugs.

This situation did not change until the ruins of one of their towns...

"What... what happened here?"

Looking at the town ahead that had been reduced to ruins and filled with black smoke, Andrea was in a daze with a confused look on her face.

The city they planned to arrive at has been turned into ruins at this moment. Looking in from the open city gate, one can see that the original wooden houses have been turned into charcoal, and black and gray smoke is slowly escaping.

On the ground beside the city gate, there were not only astonishingly large bloodstains, but also large and heavy footprints and horseshoe prints.

The scene here reminded Xiang En of the word, burning, killing, looting...

Could it be that it was ransacked by robbers?

With an inexplicably heavy heart, Xiang En and Andrea stepped into the city gate together.

After entering the inside of the city wall, the two of them were immediately dizzy from the warm smoke mixed with the smell of blood. After a while, they got used to it slightly.

There was no sound in the town save for the crackling of some ill-burned logs.

Xiang En and Andrea walked side by side on the main road of the town, looking around, some details shocked them.

The collapsed wooden houses were turned into charcoal in the burning, and the dried blood outlined the chaos of the day when the tragedy happened.

They seem to be able to spy on the scene at that time through the blood and some blood-stained footprints.

Squatting down to examine a muddy footprint carefully, Xiang En's brows almost froze together, picked up a little blood-stained mud, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it.

"Did you see anything?" Andrea asked Xiang En thoughtfully after looking around the ruins.

When she came to D'Er City, she lived here, and she could vaguely think of the prosperity here through the collapsed houses.

The complexion began to darken at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Andrea could still remember that the owner of a certain inn here had a lovely daughter. She once asked herself what the life of an adventurer was like?

At that time, she answered vividly, the girl's eyes were filled with stars, and she said that she would also be an adventurer in the future.

Now if she could see that girl again, she might change her answer... But can she really see her again?

Xiang En clapped his hands and stood up, "The smell is very weak, and the flame here has also disappeared. It should have happened about five days ago...Let's continue to look."

"Um."

Andrea's voice was low.

The two walked through the original streets and alleys, but did not find a body.

They didn't know where the bodies had gone until they walked to the ruins of a certain room and found clear drag marks on the ground.

Looking at the remaining blood on the ground, Xiang En dug up the burnt charcoal together with Andrea with complicated and apprehensive feelings.

Then, they saw the bones glued together, the number has been indistinguishable.

I had imagined that the world would be chaotic without effective laws, but to see a slaughtered town with my own eyes is something I did not expect!

After lamenting the tragedy in front of him, Xiang En turned around and walked towards Andrea, who turned her back to vomit because she couldn't accept the picture behind her.