Chapter 22 Weird Village
Xiang En led Andrea to stand two meters away from the old farmer. The two of them looked embarrassed after running around all night, and the middle-aged man clicked his tongue. Before the two could speak, he asked them why they came.
"Who are you, there are very few outsiders in our village."
Xiang En took the initiative to take over the negotiation work again, and said, "My name is Xiang En, and she is my teammate Andrea."
Andrea nodded to the middle-aged man, she didn't really want to talk, her face was paralyzed, making it unpredictable.
Seeing the attitudes of the two, the middle-aged man let go of his vigilance, and said in a neutral tone, "You can just call me Johnny."
"Okay, Brother Johnny." He took the initiative to add the word "Big Brother", which immediately made the relationship a little closer. Xiang En then began to explain: "We are all adventurers who escaped from the outside. Here, have you heard what happened outside in the past few days?"
After adjusting his standing posture, Johnny, who put his body weight on the hoe pole, said indifferently: "I don't know, our village is in the woods, even the tax collector doesn't know that there is a village, how could he know?" Things outside!"
The point is that he doesn't care much about things outside. Anyway, they have been staying in the village all the time. What happens outside has nothing to do with them. It is impossible for everyone to disappear, right?
If that's the case, they will worry a little bit, and occasionally they will go out to buy some salt and cloth.
Hearing the answer, Xiang En started to murmur in his heart. The people here probably haven't seen the outside world very much, and the communication of information is not smooth.
The village looks small, it seems that there are not many households, how did it continue, and there will be serious consequences if they intersect...
"Outside... very serious things happened outside. We don't know the specific reason, but all the people in the towns and villages outside were killed."
As soon as these words came out, Johnny, who didn't think so at first, was stunned for a moment, opened his mouth to say something, and soon changed into a thoughtful expression, ignoring the existence of the two, and lowered his eyebrows in thought .
At this time, the young man who went back to the village to look for the village chief came running back, followed by a strong man like an iron tower. From a distance, it looked like a giant bear walking upright!
The man was full of muscles, in stark contrast to the skinny young man.
Xiang En and Andrea also noticed the two people who came back, and they were surprised by the wide and strong man at the first time.
After getting closer, the two were even more surprised!
This brawny man is ridiculously big. He is at least two meters tall. From his cloudy eyes, it could be seen that he should not be young.
"There are very few people in the village. I remember the last time... Uh, I can't remember, it was the last time anyway."
Before people approach, the sound comes first.
It wasn't until the strong man stood in front of Xiang En that the two of them felt how exaggerated the oppression brought by each other's physique was, and there was a sense of shock of facing the giant bear and tiger.
The exaggerated shape made Xiang En and Andrea wonder if there was anything inhuman about this person's physique.
"Hahaha!" The muscles on the strong man's face twitched while laughing, he looked down at Xiang En and Andrea, two outsiders, and introduced himself: "Hello, outsiders, I am the village head of this village. I can’t remember the name or anything, you can just call me the village chief.”
Xiang En and Andrea nodded in a daze. Shocked by his momentum, they announced their names respectively.
"Village head." Johnny on the side recovered from the roaring laughter of a giant bear, and said to the tower-like village head: "They say that the people in the towns and villages outside have been killed..."
Johnny relayed what the two had said without leaving any details behind.
This kind of performance made Xiang En doubt his identity. Farmers who have never seen anything in the world will not be so calm after hearing that all the people in towns and villages have been killed.
Also, Johnny's physique, as well as the village chief's physique, are not like ordinary people.
The tower-like burly man was startled when he heard the words, his smile slowly subsided, and he looked at Xiang En and Andrea with slightly cloudy eyes, with unpredictable thoughts.
When the two of them were stared at by this gaze, they felt an inexplicable sense of trembling, and couldn't help but take two steps back.
There was an aura belonging to a strong man in this hulking village head, and the two of them were aware of it, but they didn't feel any malice or hostility.
"I see." The village chief finished speaking calmly, scratching his head, and then said to the two vigilantly: "Don't worry so much, what kind of bad thoughts can farmers have! You look tired, come in, the village There happens to be an empty room for you to rest in!"
Andrea looked at Xiang En, not daring to relax the hand holding the scabbard for a moment, letting him make up his mind.
Xiang En stared into the village chief's eyes for a long time, and the mage's spiritual power perception could not perceive anything, but looking at the woman poking her head out of the distant village, he chose to trust the village chief.
"Trouble, we'll pay."
...
Why are these words familiar?
Andrea thought hard, and finally remembered that she said the same thing when she was drunk in D'Aer.
"Haha!" The village chief laughed, and rejected Xiang En's offer to pay, "Money is not easy to use here, and if you ask for money now, you probably won't be able to buy anything. Come with me!"
After finishing speaking, he took the lead and walked towards the village, and introduced everything in the village to the two of them.
After entering the village, both Xiang En and Andrea had a strange feeling, which was brought about by the abnormal behavior of the village chief and Johnny.
The houses in the village are roughly arranged in two opposite rows. Not many people can be seen. The men seem to have a strong physique, and the women's eyes are not as tough and gentle as ordinary peasant women, but rather fierce and sassy. .
Not like ordinary people, but like... soldiers?
The village head's cloudy eyes glanced over the suspicion and vigilance on Xiang En's face. Although he had sensed his thoughts, he had no intention of explaining them.
Xiang En and Andrea, who were full of doubts in their hearts, were taken to an empty wooden house. The enthusiastic village chief patted his chest and said that this room was for the two to use, and they could come out to eat barbecue in the evening.
After arranging the accommodation for the two of them, the head of the village left, leaving the two strangers in the village. He was really not worried at all.
"Xiang En, what do you think?" After the oppressive village chief left, Andrea looked at Xiang En, who was slumped in a chair and meditating.
At this time, Xiang En was also puzzled, neither the village chief nor the villagers here looked like serious people!
A rough look in the village shows that the oldest person is about forty or fifty years old. If not all the old people are dead, it means that this village is very "new", and it should only have a history of a few years or ten years.
Looking at the dumbfounded appearance of Johnny's son, the establishment of this village may really only be a dozen years...
Then, in a village that has only been around for more than ten years, there are a group of young and strong people living in it, living a life of indifference to the world. Facing two strangers, except for a few children who showed curious and surprised eyes, The rest of the people have a calm demeanor.
Such a village... how can people feel at ease!
What is their purpose?
Murder for money?
Probably not.
Even if they offered to pay, they would not accept it, and they had never heard of any cults in the province of D'Aire.
Robbery?
Xiang En looked at Andrea, stared for a moment at the pair of calm eyes that glowed slightly red in the dim wooden house, and then vetoed this unreliable guess.
There are women in the village, and they seem to get along fairly well. The village chief's eyes are cloudy, but he doesn't have any desires.
After thinking for a while, Xiang En decided to give up thinking.
"Take turns to rest. If you don't rest, you can't run away..."
The two of them had been running tensely for a day and a night since yesterday, and they were extremely exhausted both physically and mentally.
In this village, the two of them are the weak side. If the villagers here want to make a move, they can control the two of them with a stick that is visible to the naked eye.
If they did not do so, it is estimated that they were not prepared to persecute them, or they had other purposes.
Let's just rest first, and then quietly leave the village at night when the rest is over!
Andrea, who was also exhausted, had nothing to say. She was also very tired after running all night. She stood by the door with a stool and observed the movement outside.
I'm about to get to the point, I can't help but add drama, but it's okay to be straight