Chapter 122 Native Residents
Breathe in, exhale.

For Lei Ze, who has been going out with his father since he was a child to hunt the Yuanbloods that threaten the village.

The ability to conceal one’s voice, judge whether the person coming is dangerous or not, and make decisions quickly and flexibly.

It’s an instinct that’s ingrained in his blood.

but
At this moment, Lei Ze doubted his instincts for the first time in his life.

“Why would there be an unmarked carriage on this mountainside trail?”

The fourteen-year-old boy, wearing a dirt-gray concealment suit that blends in with the forest, frowned and looked at the mountain path a hundred meters away.

He held the wooden hunting bow in his hand and hesitated while holding the magic communicator.

Since the thick fog that engulfed the village half a year ago, the surrounding environment has changed dramatically.

The aggression of the Abyssal Bloods has increased. The Blood Moon at night has a more serious impact than before.
The traveling merchants who used to come every half a month also disappeared.

Those who were worried about this unusual phenomenon and took the initiative to go out to explore ended up being missing and suddenly there was no news at all.

The same is true for Lei Ze’s father.

Now, the supplies in the village have been exhausted. Even the crystals that maintain the magic circulation system must be replenished by hunting Abyss Bloods.

Therefore, Lei Ze inherited his father’s responsibilities and took on the duty of patrolling around the village.

“It’s not from the Sodon Empire, and there is no mark of any royal city or city-state.” Lei Ze stared at the carriage in the distance.

“Isn’t it that the carriage is not powered by magic, so as to avoid being detected by the Abyssbloods? But even so, how did they get through the forest at the foot of the mountain?”

Because they need to avoid the Abyssbloods’ “human aura detection mechanism”.

Therefore, except for the magic empire and the like, there are resources and humans who can build city defenses.

Small villages like Lei Ze are all built on locations such as cliffs that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, with few monsters and resources and relatively high security.

This was the first time that Lei Ze saw a living person from the outside world in the six months since the heavy fog.

He longed to know what had happened.

What has their world become now?
But Lei Ze couldn’t judge whether the other party was good or evil. The sudden appearance of the carriage was too suspicious. It was difficult for him, who was only fourteen years old, to make a decision immediately.

“Sure enough. I still have to try to make contact.”

In the brief silence, Lei Ze’s eyes flashed with determination.

Intelligence is the first priority for survival. If their village continues to be isolated like this, it will be doomed.

So even if there is danger, as long as it does not affect the village, he is willing to bear it alone!

“and many more.”

Just as he was about to do something, he saw the carriage hundreds of meters away stopped, and Lei Ze frowned in confusion.

He saw a girl flying incorrectly, and someone held her and gently put her down, as if they were worried that the child would fall.

“She is very young, and she is dressed like that. Could she be a magician?”

Lei Ze widened his eyes in surprise.

In his time, magic was a noble skill that only nobles could learn. If commoners touched it without permission, they would be executed.

Even if one merely wears a wizard robe to disguise his identity, he will be subjected to the death penalty of having one hand chopped off.

Could it be that the girl with long silver hair is actually a noble? But why would a noble come to such a place?
at this time.

Lei Ze’s eyes caught the girl in the white and light gold star robe, pointing in his direction from a distance.

“Discovered!?”

His already shaken heart was shocked for a moment, and in an instant, the rock that his fingers were clinging to loosen.

“Shit!”

Just as the boy felt a chill on his back, he gritted his teeth and prepared to cushion the fall.

A steady wrist embraced his waist, and he stepped briskly on the nearly vertical cliff. He grabbed the protruding branches with his hands and flipped upwards as if walking on flat ground.

“In such a dangerous place, even if you want to peek, you must pay attention to your own safety.”

The boy said jokingly in a calm voice.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew and the boy couldn’t help but close his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he found that he had been placed in front of the carriage.

Lei Ze looked up with a confused expression.

The sight of two girls, a coachman, and a dog came into view.

Lin Xuan, who had put him down, patted his shoulder and said in a relaxed tone: “Don’t be so nervous. We are just travelers passing by, not bad people.”

He patted his chest and promised.

“Humans don’t lie to humans!”

There was a clang.

The long sword he had just drawn out in preparation for fighting, but because he was busy saving people, he didn’t have time to put it down, and it fell behind him.

Makes a crisp sound.

I simply cut the stones on the side of the road, and the cut surface was as smooth as a mirror.

Lin Xuan: “.”

The alert hunter boy shuddered: “.”

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“Anyway, thank you so much for saving me just now.”

Lei Ze tied the hunting bow back on his back and spoke with a serious expression.

He just slipped because the rock was loose and his mind was shaken. If Lin Xuan hadn’t intervened, he would have fallen hard.

In order to avoid the Abyssbloods, humans have no choice but to live in dangerous environments.

The number of people who die from injuries or accidents every year is no less than the number of people killed by the Abyssbloods.

If he got injured, the village had no magic crystal resources and no money to hire someone who could perform healing magic, which was unacceptable to Lei Ze at the moment.

“It’s okay, I just did it.” Lin Xuan waved his hand and looked at the boy’s sincere big eyes in front of him. It always feels good to help others.

He couldn’t help but turn his head and look at a witch on the other side.

Both of them hugged the person, so why were the subsequent thanks so different?
“?”

Luo Weina was still observing the boy’s attire, her expression lost in thought, when she suddenly felt a little unhappy and turned to look at Lin Xuan who had turned away.

Hunter Boy looked at Rowena’s light white wizard robes.

“I’m very sorry.” He hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to say, “But I want to know, how did you find me, Master Magician?”

This is important to Reize.

As the village’s warning person who took over his father’s position, his past experience and habit of hiding were no longer effective after the world was transformed by strange changes in heaven and earth.

For the safety of the village, he must make changes immediately.

“Eye.”

The brief reply sounded like she was talking about something unimportant. After Lovina said it, the boy was stunned for a moment and didn’t react.

“Eyes?” He wanted to ask, but the loli wearing a wizard hat ignored him.

“I think what she meant was that your magic power was concentrated in your eyes, and she noticed it.”

Lin Xuan seemed to be accustomed to this situation and did not disturb Lovina who was lost in thought. He chuckled and explained on her behalf.

“How can this be”

Lei Ze’s expression was somewhat incredulous.

In this world, there are two systems: magic and fighting spirit.

The former, like a mathematical formula, must be systematically refined to produce magic power, and then performed according to fixed runes to demonstrate powerful strength.

The conditions for learning are very simple, very simple.

That is all you need to do is practice more.

If you smash rocks with your fists thousands of times, you can wrap the fighting spirit around your hands. If you swing your sword thousands of times, you can gather energy on the sword.

And the experienced hunter looks into the distance thousands of times, using his eyes, ears, and five senses.

They will be naturally enhanced by the elements of heaven and earth when used.

From the most fundamental perspective, magic and fighting spirit are both forms of ether, except that the former is an external formula, while the latter is an instinct that permeates every inch of the muscles.

but.

Just by relying on the negligible amount of ether that seeps into the hunter’s eyes when he looks into the distance, he can sense it from such a long distance.
This girl, her sensitivity to magic? How terrifying is it?

At this time, Lin Xuan seemed calm and confident when talking to the boy, breaking down his guard.

But in fact, he was also lost in thought.

really
The intelligence was correct.

In the depths of the broken time and space, local indigenous inhabitants really appeared.

And they are completely unaware of their own world collapsing and falling into someone else’s world.

Judging from his overly respectful and slightly awe-inspiring attitude towards Rowena, this boy might even be from an era long before the collapse of the world.

This means that even the broken space-time itself – the laws of time within it may be chaotic.

“The dungeon strategy I used when I cleared the game seems to be out of date now. I have to make some major changes to it.”

Lin Xuan couldn’t help but think in his heart.

But he smiled softly.

Perhaps for most people, this temporary and unexpected change will lead to unpredictable vicious variables.

But for him, any change is a good thing.

Uncertainty? Randomness? Hardcore levels where you have to roll the dice to get points with a cap?

Wow, isn’t that a coincidence!
——What is more terrifying than randomness is that there is no upper limit, which locks the ending.

“We have no idea about the heavy fog.” Lin Xuan answered the boy’s question.

“But if there are injuries and illnesses in your village, and there is a lack of food, we can help.”

“And… Regarding your father and those missing people, I also need more information to answer your questions.”

Black pupils, calm and peaceful.

He did not talk about anything related to the alliance, nor did he ask directly whether anyone had heard of the names of the two original spirits.

Instead, he slowed down, and after hearing about the difficulties the other village was facing, he expressed his willingness to help first.

“I” Lei Ze’s expression was a little hesitant.

After being isolated for half a year, the situation in the village is indeed not optimistic.

Moreover, he wanted to find his father. Even if his father might have met with an accident according to past experience, he at least wanted to know the reason.

But we have to bring an unidentified outsider back to the village like this.

It made the boy a little difficult to decide.

hum-

At this moment, the communicator on his waist began to ring softly at a special frequency.

Birdsong?
Lin Xuan’s qualities after becoming a contract spirit allowed him to capture the peculiar wavelength of the vibration frequency.

A curious expression appeared.

“Use the weakest magic power to imitate the movements of monsters as a secret signal.” The witch lady explained in a childish voice.

“This way, we can reduce the exposure of the ether, and when we are discovered, we can also make those monsters think that this is just a normal communication between wild beasts.”

“To minimize the risk of exposing the village.”

She closed her eyes, listened for a moment, and then spoke.

“This cry is the cry of the monster ‘Listening to the Sky Blue Feather’. They mostly appear in specific mountains and forests in the northern region. We can use this to identify this guy’s background.”

“Because one of the projects was to try to make a copy of all species to see if we could find a chance to revive you, so I still have some impression of it.”

“To resolve the frequency wavelength, we need more samples, but it will be done soon. As long as he sends back the message for a while.”

When she was halfway through her words, she turned her head and found that Lin Xuan was looking at her with a slightly strange expression, as if he wanted to laugh but couldn’t.

“What’s wrong?” Rowena was puzzled. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

“No, nothing.”

Lin Xuan smiled and shook his head.

Just now, when someone answered the boy, he only said “eyes” and that was it. How could there be such a detailed and clear answer like this?
It seems that even if the attitude of saying thank you is not very good, the body is still quite honest.

And the other side.

From the frequency of the vibration, Lei Ze’s expression was confused at first.

Then, as if he had heard some serious news, he clutched the phone in astonishment.

“What? How is this possible!”

Sweat dripped down his forehead. He gritted his teeth and steadied the hunting bow on his back.

Looks like he wants to go back immediately.

But Lei Ze stopped, turned around, and said in a sincere tone: “Sorry, you should leave first.”

“My village is in danger right now. If you follow me, I’m likely to implicate you.”

“Calm down first.” Lin Xuan frowned and said in a deep voice, “What happened? If there is really danger and you rush back like this, wouldn’t that be a simple way to get yourself killed?”

Hunter Boy hadn’t replied yet.

“Knights from the Empire have penetrated the magic circle and entered their village directly.”

The person who answered was the silver-haired witch.

She looked up towards the foot of the mountain and calmly said, “Although the code was in the form of keywords, the people over there didn’t explain it very clearly, but I felt the traces of a transfer magic circle.”

“But the strange thing is that the size of the formation does not match the number of people teleported here.”

After a brief pause.

Under Lei Ze’s astonished and uneasy gaze, Lovina began to tell him her guesses, which were far more accurate than the information he got from the communicator.

“I think their goal should be to bring back as many people as possible, right?”

“Take as many as you have.”

After hearing this, Lei Ze felt like he was struck by lightning.

He murmured, “No wonder Uncle Owen told me to run away quickly. So this is what happened.”

He gritted his teeth.

After seeing Miss Witch’s analytical ability and Lin Xuan’s previous attack, the remaining few people might also have their own unique skills.

That stupid-looking black dog might actually be a magical beast!

After hesitating for a moment, the hunter boy remembered what Lin Xuan had said to him before, and he lowered his head with a pleading expression.

“Please help me. Please.”

(End of this chapter)