Chapter 1189 Story

Perhaps in the field of magic, Pierre is just an ordinary human who has a little knowledge, and even the weakest vampire will not take him seriously, but when it comes to investigating intelligence and collecting historical secrets, Pierre is an absolute An expert, his skills in this area may be no worse than Nangong Sanba: Human beings are a curious race, and their own weakness will urge the spirit world detectives to pay special attention to the collection of intelligence. When Pierre came to this The village had already investigated a lot of things before, and during the two months of being trapped, he continued to study the broken ancient books he had brought, and the things he discovered during this period were much more than Hao Ren imagined.

The noise in the village square is still going on. I don’t know how long this long celebration will last until it ends, and the weird villagers don’t seem to worry about anyone escaping from this place, or they have other ways. Monitoring the border of the village, no one has come to the longhouse to check the situation until now. Hao Ren was a little surprised by this: "I thought they would monitor it very tightly."

"Who are you monitoring? You? Or me?" Pierre shook his head. "Their action patterns are regular. Although there are no loopholes to escape from, they can find some gaps if they follow the rules. They will treat new people who enter the village. It is relatively loose. This is probably to prevent suspicion. After all, people who have just entered the village still retain a considerable degree of self-will. If the villagers behave too abnormally, it will cause a series of problems. And as the time you stay in this village increases, As you stay here longer and longer, you will subtly accept and identify with this place, and become unwilling to leave, and even forget where you are and where you came from. At that time, the villagers will use the rules of the village to restrict you, and you will be happy Accept it. In the end, you become a complete walking zombie. You think you belong here, and you were even born here. You will have a false memory. The content of this memory is that you were born and raised in this village, and you are destined to die. Lifetime - by then all the foreign traces on your body will have corroded away, you will wear their clothes, stand in their ranks, yes, you will also become a 'villager', just like what you saw during the day That way.”

Vivian was immediately surprised: "You said those villagers were also transformed from people trapped here?!"

"If my investigation and guess are correct, this should be the case," Pierre nodded lightly. "When I first came here, I found traces of the 'transformation' that had just been completed on several villagers. There were cats on them. Wang's tattoos, but after a month these marks completely disappeared, and they became completely 'villagers'. I'm afraid that the village leader Winston also came from this."

Vivian touched her chin: "I remembered the allusion of working for the tiger."

"There is only a fence outside this village." Hao Ren looked up and looked out the window. Due to the angle, he could just see the boundary of the village from here. The tattered low fence was clearly visible here, "You didn't try Have you ever walked out? Theoretically, the villagers trapped here cannot leave this land, so the chances of you forcing your way out should be quite high."

Pierre knew Hao Ren would mention this. He smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's impossible. No one can cross that fence. There is still a village on the other side of the fence. I have tried many times. There is magic in effect here. Of course, Maybe you can try it.”

Hesperius frowned: "Everything was normal when I came here three hundred years ago. What happened here?"

Pierre immediately looked around cautiously, as if what he was going to say next would attract some kind of evil spirit in the dark night. He lowered his voice and said in a mysterious tone: "According to my investigation, I am afraid that it is related to an ancient man." Related to the sinful witchcraft rituals performed by the family."

"Family? Witchcraft ritual?" Hesperius was stunned. No matter how she thought about it before, she thought that what happened here should be caused by Hercules and the ancient artifact, but she did not expect that other parties would be involved. " What did you find out?"

"The earliest record was more than two hundred years ago." Pierre lowered the window panels in the room and lit another spare oil lamp in the room, as if to dispel the gloomy atmosphere around him. "At that time, this village was just a This is a remote and poor ordinary village. Although it is hidden deep in the dense forest, there are no bad rumors. Moreover, the towns outside the forest occasionally communicate with the village. Later, a down-and-out noble family moved here. They were the leaders of the French Revolution. The exiles who were destined to lose their power and status were left with only wealth. They settled in a small town outside the forest. However, the family was soon ostracized and hostile by the residents of the town. The situation was so serious that the family members Life safety is beginning to be threatened..."

Vivian interrupted: "Why?"

"Because of the study of witchcraft, even people returning from other places brought the family's bad reputation. There were many such down-and-out nobles at that time. Because their social status was in violent turmoil and their lives were precarious, they began to seek some less legitimate spiritual practices. There are no records of sustenance and power in official history, but I found evidence from many esoteric documents. The down-and-out nobleman who moved here was very addicted to the study of witchcraft, and his family was more sinking than other families: they They have been obsessed with this art for generations. Unlike those who can only hold fake magic books and shout in circles around the campfire, they have some real magical knowledge.

"Due to this reason, this aristocratic family that lost its powerful position was ostracized by the townspeople and was even in danger of being guillotined, so they had no choice but to move out of the town, and later settled somewhere between the town and the small village in the forest. A house was built there.”

"In the forest? You are so generous..." Vivian raised her eyebrows, "Then what?"

"There are multiple versions of what happened after that. Some said that the family summoned an alien devil in their basement. The devil destroyed the town outside the forest and cursed the village in the forest. Some said that they The patriarch of the family went crazy because of studying witchcraft and turned into a devil. However, my investigation is more inclined to the third theory: there was a very powerful magic item hidden in the small village in the forest, and the one who moved here The nobleman himself came for this magical item. He and his family tricked a hermit in the village, stole the artifact from the hermit, and tried to obtain the magic power of the artifact. The hermit was alone after discovering that he had been deceived. He came to ask for an explanation, but the noble deceived him again, pretending to return the artifact, but poisoned the wine. In the end, the weak hermit and the noble had a witch-demon war, and the noble lost, and lit a fire when he was dying. He burned his house and all his family members to death in order to die with the hermit, but the hermit escaped with the power of the artifact..."

Pierre paused after saying this, and the next words are the key point: "The hermit who escaped from the fire returned to the small village with the artifact, but died of poisoning at the entrance of the village. His anger before his death contaminated the magic item. So the magical power from the ancient times immediately spread out and cursed the entire village. I guess the hermit's obsession was 'no one can take anything away from this land', so this obsession was distorted by the curse and became No one can leave this land. The above is my investigation and speculation."

After Pierre finished speaking, Hesperius crossed his arms and nodded: "I'm afraid your guess is indeed the one closest to the truth, but there is only one thing that is unlikely - that 'hermit' is not someone who can be fooled by ordinary people. The guy that humans got it done.”

When Pierre heard this, he immediately realized that these people in front of him might also know part of the truth. He opened his eyes wide and said, "Do you know who the 'hermit' in the story is?"

"We came here to find him," Hao Ren said. "His name was Hercules back then."

Pierre reacted for a few seconds, and finally there was a strange cry: "The Hercules from the Twelve Trials in Ancient Greek Mythology?!"

Hesperius muttered beside him: "To be honest, I thought the twelve trials back then were quite unreasonable and too troubling. It's a pity that Hera was behind this matter. I was looking for Zeus reported the problem several times to no avail..."

There was a strange look on Pierre's face. It seemed that it was the first time he heard someone bragging about such ancient myths in the first person, and he was a little uncomfortable with it - even though Hesperus was not bragging about it.

"But no matter what, Hercules' whereabouts are indeed unknown now," Vivian touched her chin, "It seems that the key to the problem is related to the family back then. I'm afraid they touched something they shouldn't have touched and caused the artifact. The power is out of control. Pierre, do you know where the family’s former residence is?”

"Outside the village," Pierre pointed in a certain direction, "Actually it's not that far from here. The ruins of the ancient house have been swallowed up by the forest, but I guess the main part of the house is still there. After all, it was a house built by the nobles. According to records, it was built with a large amount of stone and ancient concrete. I know the key to lifting the curse should be there, but unfortunately I can’t get out.”

"Let's go," Hao Ren stood up. "The distortion of time and space here shouldn't stop us."

"You'd better wait until dawn," said Pierre. "By then, there will be some changes in the village."