It was a long, clean street lined with shops.Most of the houses in the city of El are made of brick and timber, and the residents here like to build their houses with red facades, pointed roofs, and beautiful attics, like small cottages standing on the street, and there is a small courtyard behind it, and there is a lemon tree planted in the yard, which is full of very small green fruits, and it looks like the flowers on the lemon tree may have just withered, and my adoptive parents live here.I love the antique walnut furniture, the carved windows, and I even love the little attic with the crisp windows, and the little cot that smells of soap.But the reason why I really chose this place is only that this small attic just happens to see the villa of Sister Guoguo's family.His adoptive father's name was Ryante, and he was a swordsmanship teacher at the Stans War College in the city of Eyre, and he was a very mild man, with blonde hair, and he wore training sheepskin leggings and a white shirt embroidered with lace all day, and his beard was very clean.He rarely wears a sword except in class.He told me to just call him by name.His wife, my adoptive mother, named Fanny, was a judge in an arbitration court.But I think she prefers to do housework at home, and her fried onion cakes taste amazing.They are not aristocratic families, they can only be regarded as ordinary families that have just reached the level of wealthy, because both of them have very decent jobs, their monthly salaries are also quite good, and their living conditions are very relaxed, and they have the conditions of adopters.I later found out why they adopted me, not because they had lost their son or anything like that, but because they had a daughter named Tracy, who was three years older than me and was currently studying at Stans College.The laws of the Grimm Empire require that women in the Empire must marry before the age of twenty-five, otherwise they will be considered breaking the law.Because the Green Empire is generally facing the embarrassing situation of having too many boys and girls.This makes it difficult for girls in many families to find a suitable partner to marry, and even if they do, it is not easy to have a happy marriage.For the sake of their daughter's lifelong happiness, they actually came up with a strange solution.This is also what Fanny, the adoptive mother of the judge of the arbitration court, came up with, which is to adopt an orphan.From an early age, he began to cultivate excellent moral character and a good education.In addition, in this way, you can grow up with Tracy from a young age and establish a good emotional foundation, maybe your daughter will have a happy second half of her life in the future.Of course, this requires me to be able to come back alive from the battlefield.In fact, this cheap sister didn't like me.On the contrary, she always felt that I had taken away half of my father's love and mother's love, and regarded me as the enemy of life and death.Tracy's swordsmanship is very good, thanks to her adoptive father Ryant, her personality is more like her adoptive mother Fanny, she is introverted but has her own ideas, she usually likes to sit in front of the attic window and read some knight's travelogue and other books about adventure, but she has never had the idea of going out on adventure, she has her own circle of friends, she minds that friends know me, and always keeps her mouth shut about me.And so the days passed.I'm like a bird in a cage, and I'd rather lock myself up in the attic room for the whole day unless Fanny asks me to do so.Leant and Fanny were very worried about this, they thought that I was a bit introverted, maybe it was a slight autism caused by the changes in my early family, and they often encouraged me to go out and play with the children on the street, but even on the street, I just liked to stand on the side of the road and quietly watch the children my age.Those games were so boring for me.Every November, when spring comes to the Green Continent, I will take a small trip with my bags on my back, and I will go all the way up the White Elephant River.At the three-way junction of the river near the city of Sloit, turn around and follow the Galloping Horse River upstream, until you reach the Hundred Waterfalls Cliff at the foot of the mountains of the Pai Plateau, where you stand as if a jade belt poured straight down from the sky.The first time I traveled, I made Ryan and Fanny worry for a long time, and the second time.I was really touched by Fanny's countless remarks before I left.Ryan even took time out of his way for me to learn some swordsmanship.He thinks that it is good to awaken the magic pool during the magic awakening ceremony, but after all, it is a one-in-a-million thing, and if there is no awakening magic pool, then go to the War College to learn techniques and tactics, maybe it is a good idea to choose the same school as Tracy.It's been five years since I've been in El City, and when I walked out of El City with my travel bag on my back, I saw Fanny's worried eyes in the glass window at the door, she was feeling more and more worried lately, as we got along longer and longer, and the feelings between each other became deeper and deeper, she became more and more worried that one day maybe I would say goodbye, she covered her mouth and tried not to let her tears fall, and when I turned my head and waved goodbye to her, she could still smile and nod to me, I knew she must have tears in her eyes inside the sand-patterned glass window.I told myself that I had to go and come back as soon as possible this time, so as not to worry Fanny.Actually, I don't know why I always have to take such a trip every year when spring is about to pass.Maybe it was because those memories were deeply engraved in my mind, and I thought to myself: maybe I was thinking that one day I would suddenly reunite with Sister Guoguo at the bottom of the Hundred Waterfalls Cliff.The beautiful dividing line runs northwest along the White Elephant River from the city of El, and there is a forgotten corner of the mountains that stretches for dozens of miles, which is known as the Land of the Damned.It was overgrown with blue-spotted weeds that even yellow sheep didn't like to eat, withered and leafless blood-sucking trees that could feed on the blood of humans and animals, burned-out fruit trees with blue flames burning all over their bodies, and other mutated plants.The vegetation here is very special, there are many plants that will make people infected with some strange diseases once eaten by mistake, according to legend, tens of thousands of years ago, there was a strong man who came to the hell demon clan died here, his body turned into a mountain that stretched for dozens of kilometers, his flesh and blood nourished the land here, making the originally rich and fertile mountains and fields into barren land.This place and the surrounding area are not suitable for human life, so it is almost forgotten by the people in the vicinity.Four years ago, I accidentally broke into this place along the Galloping Horse River, only to find that this place is different from other places, the soil here is black and shiny, and when you step on it, the soil seems to be able to seep oil.The plants here are very new to me, most of them species that I have never seen before, in the old Kuru's parchment scroll plant encyclopedia.There is hardly any introduction to these plants, so everything here makes me feel particularly curious.Every year when I go out on a trip, I stay here for a few days to study the new species here.The depths of these mountains.There was an abandoned castle, in fact this castle manor built on the hill was not very large, but when I found it, it looked like it had been abandoned for many years.I've asked the inhabitants of the Cursed Lands about the castle, and many are unaware of its existence.Moreover, the residents of the vicinity of this place are very afraid of the Cursed Land, believing that cattle and sheep will go crazy and die if they eat the grass of the Cursed Land, and generally rarely come near here, so they are not very familiar with the situation here.It wasn't until one time later, when I followed Ryan to the library of Stans College, where I found an offering introducing the Cursed Land, that I realized that the original scope of this area was only a few kilometers in size, and after countless years of evolution, the Cursed Land was actually slowly expanding little by little, but the process was very slow.It's so slow that people can't even notice it.And the ancient castle in the depths of the mountains, originally built on the edge of the Cursed Lands, once inhabited by some magicians who studied magic plants and magic potions in the wizards' union, this castle was the original observatory stronghold, and in the nearly 100 years since then, dozens of magicians have come here one after another, trying to unlock the secrets of the magical plants here, trying to study and discover some new values of the plants here, but unfortunately, most of the magicians have almost failed.Slowly, the Land of the Cursed gradually eroded the land around the castle, making it more and more barren and inaccessible.Slowly, even the magicians forgot about it, so there was an abandoned castle here.And yet every time.This ghostly castle is the best place for me to camp, at least there are some stone houses that can keep out the rain, and the vampire trees that can move in the dirt in the wild don't like to come to this area of the castle, every time I am chased by those half-animal and half-plant vampire trees, they will hide in the castle.Here's what keeps me coming back.It's here that I feel very familiar with the burned-out fruit tree, it is a kind of big tree that burns in flames, the burned-out fruit tree has no leaves, the dry branches seem to be carbonized, and the branches are full of red and bright fruits, the whole tree is wrapped in blue flames, and any animal or plant will be turned into ashes if they touch the burned-out fruit tree.Old Kuru had guessed that I had been abandoned after eating a burnt fruit, so when I found out that I could see this strange plant here, it sparked my strong curiosity to study these strange plants, which were obviously not native to this place, and these strange plants were more like plants from the world of hell.But these problems are a little too deep for a child like me.Two years ago, when I passed through the Cursed Land, I met an interesting old man, his name is Morath, he is a wood magician, he has been studying the topic of the difference between magic plants and mutant plants recently, in order to be able to write an excellent thesis, this old man has been here for more than half a year, he is also very curious about me, I had to make up a lie that I am a lost child, I don't know why I actually came here, At first, it was actually chasing a hare.Later, the old man left me in the castle for one night, and gave me some delicious dried fish, and the next day he personally sent me out of the Cursed Land, and I thought he was a very kind magician scholar, and I never saw him again when I passed through the Cursed Land again.In recent years, the province of Sloit has been invaded by the barbarians of the ice and tundra in winter, and many of the men in the villages around the city have been captured by the barbarians and sent to work as mine slaves in the extreme cold.This made many peasants in the countryside have to be displaced, and many people are very dissatisfied with the Grand Duke of Wall in Sloitt Province, thinking that the Grand Duke of Wall may be too old, so he will stand up for those barbarians who connived at the big men who should be in power, and lead the North Wind Legion to teach those barbarians some lessons, so that they can go back to the north bank of the White Elephant River.More extremely, those who have lost their homes believe that since the aristocracy in power is incapable of keeping them safe, they have no reason to collect taxes.The group began to fight incessantly, and they even killed the tax collector sent from the city of Sloit.And burned down the village, hid in the mountains and became a bandit.One day, I suddenly discovered that the ancient castle in the Cursed Land had become a stronghold for those bandits.They are really good at finding places, and I guess the people of the Sloy Guard Regiment will not find this place, but for me, it is not a good thing.It was once my own backyard, and it was suddenly occupied, which made me very unhappy, but I couldn't do anything about them.Sister Guoguo once said to me that if I can't awaken the magic pool and become a magician during the magic awakening ceremony, then I might as well hide myself and become an ordinary person.Otherwise, the sorcerers who peeped into my magical talent would swallow me up to the bones, so I don't intend to deal with these poor and hateful bandits.They are a bunch of cowardly people, bullied by the barbarians of the ice and tundra and the nobles of Sloit.Just act as a bandit and turn around and bully the residents of the surrounding ordinary villages.For someone like me, who has officially become a resident of the city of Eyre, I prefer to trust the guard battalion in the town of Eyre, even if they are just as bad.I poked my head out of the grass and pulled off the blades of grass stuck to my face, with a complete blue grass on my head, like a guinea pig hiding in the grass, my whole body was still buried in the black muddy soil, although my body was covered with a layer of moisture-proof and waterproof sleeping bag, but this feeling was still not very comfortable.The smell of dirt in the Cursed Lands stinks, with a smell of asphalt.I was suddenly curious to see the group of patrol bandits sneakily walking towards the castle of the Cursed Lands.What is it that makes these bandits who hide in the Cursed Land so nervous?
You must know that when I went to Baipu Cliff more than half a month ago, these bandits still looked like they were eating and waiting to die.But after more than half a month, this place is so heavily guarded that not a single fly can fly over.Know that this is a cursed land that is inaccessible to the inaccessible.Where it is already about to be forgotten, the more the bandits are so eager to cover up.Originally, I wanted to get back to El City as soon as possible, lest Fanny worry about me, and I think she must not have eaten well for dinner these days.But seeing the bandits in this way aroused my curiosity, and I wondered what was hidden in the castle that would make them nervous like this.Seeing that the bandits had gone away, I carefully took a handful of raisins from my waist bag and stuffed them into my mouth, and poured a large mouthful of water.Raisins are particularly high in sugar and are a great way to quickly replenish energy.Maybe these bandits have never noticed me hiding in the shadows, but I have infiltrated the castle several times in the past two years, and I am quite familiar with the situation of the bandits in the castle, and they are a group of rabble.Their leader is not an ordinary man, though, a wanted magician, and I don't know how strong he is, but apparently he doesn't do a good job of managing this group of bandits.It only took me two nights to figure out how the bandits patrolled.At dusk, taking advantage of the interval between the changing of the guard of these bandits, I sneaked into the castle at the back side door.I took refuge in a pigeon's nest in one of the towers of the castle and waited quietly for the night to come.If I hadn't entered the castle before nightfall, it would have been difficult for ordinary people to sneak into the castle once the gates were closed, and even if I could climb the cliff-like stone walls outside the castle, it would have been a lot of trouble.It's been a long time since pigeons have been in the tower, and since the last time I thought it was a good place to hide, and it was sheltered from the wind and rain, and it happened to be hidden behind an attic that was sticking out, I decided to clean it up and put some common supplies, and I didn't think it would be a good hiding place now.As I was drowsy in the pigeon's nest, I noticed some movement in the courtyard of the castle, where there was usually no one there.A carriage drove out of the courtyard of the castle, and a woman dressed as a cook was helped into the carriage with a magic wand inlaid with magic crystals in her hand.A man in a magician's robe followed, he stood in front of the carriage and did not follow the carriage, at this moment the fat woman like a cook suddenly turned to the magician and said, "I will go to Sloitt City this time, it will take about three days, you take good care of that old fellow, don't let him run away." ”"Got it, Mr.
Kale.I'll do what you tell me to do!
”The magician below said respectfully.Madame Calle narrowed her eyes, squeezed a sweet-looking smile out of her fat face, waved the magic wand in her hand slightly, and whispered, "Very good, if we can succeed this time, we don't have to stay in this hellish place anymore, okay, the time is almost up, I should go!"
”An owl flew out of the carriage and disappeared into the twilight night.And when the fat cook-like lady got into the carriage, the royal who sat in front of the carriage waved his whip and drove the black carriage out of the castle, and it was so dark that I could not see where the carriage had finally gone.But I learned an important piece of news: sure enough, the bandits seemed to have captured a very important person.In fact, I was just curious, I wanted to see what happened in the castle, which made these bandits so nervous, in fact, my sense of justice did not reach the point where I had to rescue people, I seemed to be able to come and go in this castle alone, but I didn't think I had the ability to take the people in the dungeon out of the castle safely, then again, I didn't really want to care about it, I felt that my ability was limited, and there was no need to put myself in.But the tower was so dry and airy that it was far more comfortable than if I had slept in a sleeping bag in the wilderness, and I didn't have to watch out for the vampire wood, so before I knew it, I was asleep.I was woken up by the sound of girls crying.At that time, I was sleeping very sweetly alone, and I seemed to dream that Sister Guoguo was riding a horse and taking me for a ride on the Xinghu grassland, but when I woke up, I found that I was only in the tower, blowing a cold wind everywhere, and the wind blowing after night became very cold, which made me shiver.I cursed in my mouth: Damn bandits, you can't be idle for a quarter of an hour!
It was normal to snatch goods and women or something, but the noise in the middle of the night even woke me up, which was a bit excessive.Even so, I wasn't prepared to get into trouble.But as I hid in the pigeon's nest and looked out, the window of the attic in front of me was pushed open, and a naked girl crawled out of the attic, clutching a white sheet in her hand, and was desperately crawling out of the attic.By the bright moonlight, I could clearly see her smooth toes stepping on the tiles, shivering from the cold wind.She was looking over at me, and I happened to be poking my head out at this moment, and in the snowy moonlight, we looked at each other, "Morayar, where else can you escape?"
Do you want to fall off the attic here, well, I can guarantee that tomorrow everyone here will see a female corpse in the courtyard without any clothes, hehe, I think I should let the old man Morath take a good look, I wonder if he will be very sad?
”A man's voice came from the attic in the back, the same magician who had been talking to the cook-like woman in the courtyard in the evening.I'd rather I hadn't heard that, or hadn't looked at the girl at all!
I hurriedly made a silent gesture to the girl, and she covered her mouth in shock, obviously just thinking that I was just a little thief in charge of guarding the castle, but I didn't think that I actually made a gesture with her, so that the girl named Morayar covered her mouth, but the surprised look hung on her face.