Chapter 783 Cursed Town

This nameless town, imprisoned in a space by witchcraft, is much larger than imagined. After boarding a wooden tower in the town, Hao Ren saw the rolling buildings in the distance. The layers of old roofs extended up and down along the terrain, as if they were disgusting on the body of some kind of dirty giant beast. Like wrinkles, everything in sight has a lifeless gray-black color. There are no bright colors in the entire town that can make people feel a little more relaxed. And at the end of the town away from the river bank, you can see a large Buildings, perhaps the residences of nobles.

It is most likely the place where the wizard lived.

Hao Ren came down from the watchtower and told everyone what he saw: "There is a big house at the other end of the town. Let's go there first."

"Well, don't just rush on the road. Pay attention to what's going on around you on the way." Vivian nodded. "There are always many traps in the positions set up by wizards, especially on such a large scale... that can set up such a secret realm." This guy is probably not ordinary in the age of mythology."

Everyone cautiously explored this silent and strange lost town. Lily looked curiously at the old houses and simple street facilities around her along the way. She asked the most knowledgeable person at the scene: " Bat, what era do you think this town is from?"

"Between the millennium AD and 400 years ago, the architectural style and civilization level in this area basically did not change much during that time. Moreover, the time flow in this town is obviously out of sync with the outside, so it is even less certain that it is What era is it from?" Vivian frowned, "But one thing is for sure, the secret realm must not be naturally formed - this place should have been just an ordinary town by the river before. It was the power of magic that pulled it away from the real world. Come in."

"About the wizard you found," Hao Ren raised his head and looked at Hesiana, "Do you have any more specific information?"

Hesiana was quite reluctant to talk to Hao Ren, but at this time she still spoke lazily: "Wizards are a bunch of mysterious guys, and there is never much information available. We only found one thing about this wizard. According to some sporadic information, his earliest activity was recorded around 1346 AD. He seemed to have been French, and his earliest name was 'Baptiste'. He stayed in France for a hundred years, and there was nothing particularly outstanding during this period. Deeds, he was still a very honest guy at that time. But I don’t know what happened later. The wizard suddenly left France and then traveled to many countries in Europe, leaving behind a large number of records of black magic and evil rituals. Around 1500 AD He was active in Finland and Russia, and the situation in this town should be what he did at that time."

"Then what?"

"Then the information was intermittent. He hardly moved outside in the next two centuries, and there is very little information left." Hesiana shook her head, "This 'Baptiste' is a freak, he He has never contacted his fellow wizards. It stands to reason that his power has surpassed many wizards in history, but his reputation is not even as good as some black magic apprentices. I used almost all the intelligence connections in my family to find this person. After searching for information, I didn’t even find out the origin of the wizard’s power or the faction he belonged to. Hey, he’s a low-key hermit and a lone ranger.”

Vivian looked up at the ever-changing sky shrouded in smoke and asked casually: "Is that wizard dead?"

"There is no clear death certificate either," Hesiana smiled wryly and spread her hands. "There are records saying that he was involved in a melee between demon hunters and descendants of Anubis two centuries ago and disappeared in the aftermath of the battle. , and he never appeared again for two whole centuries. So he is probably dead... Who knows, anyway, we are just here for his manuscripts and relics, so it would be better for such a troublesome guy to be dead."

"I prefer that he is still alive," Hao Ren shrugged, "so that I can ask him what the ritual of summoning the evil spirit Vivian means."

As the group spoke, they approached the center of the town. The road in front of them seemed slightly wider. Although the distribution of buildings was still chaotic, the surrounding houses appeared to be slightly stronger than the previous ones in terms of scale and quality. First of all, it seems that this was once a place where the "gentlemen" in the town lived. A small empty space appeared in front of everyone. This could not be called a square, just a relatively empty place. The ground here is leveled and neatly, and the road around the open space is paved with moderately sized cobblestones. In the center of the open space, you can see a decayed and collapsed wooden platform. It seems that this was once a place where the townspeople gathered and listened to the lords. A place of command.

Surrounding the open space are old houses made of wood and stone. One after another, the ancient houses that look like haunted houses are surrounding in a circle, staring at the outsiders who trespass into the town with their empty gray-black faces. Their doors are closed, and the narrow windows are hung with tattered strips of cloth or wooden boards. The gaps between the doors and windows reveal the empty darkness inside. There seems to be a pair of eyes hidden in the darkness - those who have mysteriously disappeared and whose final fate is unknown. How in the eyes of the townspeople.

Nangong Wuyue seemed to be a little frightened by the surrounding atmosphere. She summoned a burst of water mist to wrap around herself, and then turned into a siren form. After casually throwing her clothes ball to Hao Ren, the water snake girl stretched her body and said, "Huh... I feel more at ease this way."

Hao Ren put May's clothes into his pocket and asked kindly, "Aren't you cold?"

Half of the May water snake's body was spread out directly on the ground, and the ground in this small town in the Arctic Circle was as cold as ice. Hao Ren felt cold and panicked for her when he saw the other party's tail arching on the ground.

Wuyue raised the tip of her tail and shook it: "It's okay, water elements are not afraid of the cold - as long as they don't freeze, it'll be fine."

At this time, Lily became interested in the wooden platform in the center of the open space. She went over and walked around the platform curiously, and suddenly raised her fire weapon and was very happy: "Why do I feel so cold around this platform?"

"There are a lot of spirits here," Nangong Sanba held two bottles of exorcism oil in his hands with a serious look on his face, "Don't poke around with a fire stick. If you disturb the more powerful evil spirits, you will have fun. ”

When Lily heard this, she was immediately furious. She was very happy to hold the fire stick and gestured at Nangong Sanba: "You said this is a fire stick - don't you see the three crosses on it?!"

"Are the spirits here talking about ghosts?" Hao Ren had long been interested in this question. "If they are ghosts, can they communicate with each other?"

Such an eerie and strange lost town, with countless invisible spirits wandering among the dilapidated streets and houses, would have been enough to frighten ordinary people to death, but Hao Ren had just defeated an entire planet's angry spirits. Now his nerves are strong, and the first thing that comes to mind when talking about ghosts is to ask them about it.

"It's a pity that they are all very weak spirits." Nangong Sanba shook his head regretfully. "There are them everywhere in the air, but they are all mixed together, so blurred that there are almost no boundaries - this kind of spirit that cannot even maintain itself. The body cannot communicate, and memory and thinking have long been gone.”

Hao Ren snorted and murmured thoughtfully: "Are you an aborigine of this town?"

“Nine times out of ten, that’s the case,” Vivian agreed. “The residents in this town should be ordinary humans, and based on the state of the houses, the residents here didn’t have time to react when the town was dragged into this time and space— —Ordinary people can’t live long in this kind of space.”

"Did you drag the whole town in... What did that wizard want to do back then?" Hao Ren frowned, his expression a little ugly, "If it's just to live in seclusion, it would be too unnecessary to go through such a big deal."

Lily had circled the wooden platform many times as they discussed the fate of the townsfolk. She was inexplicably attracted to this platform, with a faint light emitting from her golden eyes. In her field of vision, many erratic shadows slowly appeared in the open space, and those shadows had vague human outlines. They seemed to be wearing clothes from hundreds of years ago. They stood there expressionlessly, looking up in the direction of the wooden platform, as if they were numbly listening to someone who did not exist talking on the platform.

Lily's ears slowly pricked up, and some scattered words floated into her ears:

"...The child was indeed stolen by the devil. We should expel the witch as soon as possible..."

"It seems like I haven't seen the lord for a long time?"

"...The scholar said he would help the child exorcise evil spirits, but I don't really believe in magic..."

"Hush, do you want to be cursed by a witch? They will throw you outside the town. The witch is still wandering outside..."

“Why not find a church?”

"...The lord didn't show up..."