Chapter 96 The Secret of the Nameless Village.
Chapter 96 The Secret of the Nameless Village.
After eating a mouthful of sweet potatoes, no matter what Fiaran said, Yin was determined not to take a second bite.For this, Fei Yaran expressed deep regret and had to eat all the remaining sweet potatoes by himself.
Village Chief Raul didn't come back for a long time.Little Yaka woke up from a nap and saw that only Aunt Mary was watching over the bed, and immediately knew that Emma must be in bad condition again, that's why grandpa disappeared.
"Aunt Mary, how is Emma?" Yi Gulu got up from the bed, and Little Ya hurriedly asked Mary's cuff.
Mary sighed, touched little Yaka's anxious face affectionately, and finally told the truth, "...it's not very good."
"I'm going to see Emma!" After hearing Mary's words, little Yaka quickly jumped off the bed, put on her shoes and ran out the door.
"Yaka! Wait for me!" Seeing this, Mary also ran out of the house, planning to go back with Yaka.
But I didn't want to, as soon as I went out, I saw two adults standing side by side in the courtyard, and their footsteps suddenly stopped.
Fiaran had already heard the conversation between Yaka and Mary in the house before, so he knew that Yaka and the woman named Mary were going to the house of the little girl named "Emma" at this time.
However, after seeing Mary's footsteps stop, with a look of confusion and hesitation on her face, Fiaran thought about it and understood her worries—it was probably because she was worried about leaving the two strangers alone. Stay at the village chief's house.
Thinking of this, Fei Yaran glanced at Yin, smiled and said to Mary: "If you don't mind, can we go there together?"
Mary hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Little Yaka, who had already opened the bamboo fence and ran away in a hurry, finally nodded to Fiaran, and also quickly walked out of the village chief's house.
"Let's go and have a look too." After talking to Yin, Fieran also went out, and Yin naturally followed.
Wuming Village has only more than 30 households. It is a very small village. Standing at the entrance of the village, you can see the other side of the village. Therefore, not long after Fi Yaran and Yin walked out, they arrived at Emma's house.
At this time, there are already many people around here, almost all of them are old and weak women and children.Seeing Fiaran and Yin who followed Mary, their eyes were filled with amazement and vigilance.
Such two looks that should not appear at the same time, in less than half a day, Fiaran has seen it several times, and it is not unfamiliar.
Noticing that the crowd suddenly became tense because of the arrival of himself and Yin, Fei Yaran paused, and He Yin stopped outside Emma's house.
Are the people in this village too defensive against outsiders?
Many questions flashed in my heart, seeing Mary who had already entered the yard, looking back at him and Yin, Fiaran smiled reassuringly, and shook her head to signal that she and Yin would just wait outside, and did not plan to go in again.Mary breathed a sigh of relief, pulled out an awkward smile, and then turned around and entered Emma's house.
The air nearby was a bit cloudy, mixed with a few obvious bloody smells.
People here don't use cleansing magic like elves, and they have plenty of water, and they don't have the deep-rooted cleanliness of elves, so taking a bath seems to be a very luxurious thing, and most of them don't smell very good. The smell of domestic animal excrement has been floating in the air. Although humans have long been used to it, it is a complete torture to elves with keen five senses.
And now, the smell of blood oozes out of this torture.
Looking at Emma's house surrounded by crowds, Fei Yaran pondered for a while, then called out the system panel, clicked on the focus list, and sure enough, there was a little girl named Emma among the nearby people, with a blood bar It has almost bottomed out and is still slowly draining away.
From the system panel, Fiaran could clearly see the purple-black "poison" debuff on the little girl's head.This "Poisoning" debuff didn't lose much HP. What really made Emma's HP plummet was the "Tearing" debuff on her body.
Obviously, in addition to being poisoned, the little girl was also injured.
If this continues, Emma will be able to return to the camp in a short time.
Of course, for humans without a system, returning to the camp would mean complete death.
Fei Yaran frowned slightly.
Sure enough, it didn't take long before Emma's house suddenly heard loud wailing and screaming from children.
Fiaran glanced at the focus list again, and Emma's blood bar was almost left with a thin layer of blood skin, which indicated that her life would soon come to an end.
Pursing her lips fiercely, Fiaran quickly pushed away the crowd in front of her, and rushed into Emma's house like the wind.Squeezing into the villagers around the bed, when everyone lost their minds because of his appearance, Fiaran said softly to Village Chief Raul who was sitting beside Emma's bed, who seemed to have aged a lot: "I have Way to save her."
The wailing stopped abruptly, and the old village chief suddenly raised his head and looked at Fiaran.
His lips trembled, and Village Chief Raul's voice trembled a little, "Master Jade, you... what you said is true?!"
"Village Chief!" The other villagers around the bed suddenly shouted in shock.
No need to look, Fiaran knew that vigilance and vigilance had completely prevailed in the eyes of those villagers looking at him at this time, but he just looked into the eyes of Village Chief Raul, completely unmoved by the vigilance of those villagers move.
When Village Chief Raul heard the sound, the tired look in his eyes became more intense, but in the end he said firmly to Fiaran: "My lord, please save her!"
Nodding slightly, Fei Yaran thought for a while, and after asking the village chief to invite all the villagers around the bed outside, he looked at the little girl lying on the kang with a face as pale as a ghost.
Emma doesn't look very big, she is about eleven or twelve years old, she has long golden hair, and her facial features are fairly regular, she can be seen to be the embryo of a little beauty, but this child, like all the villagers, is thin It was terrible, and the exposed arms were so slender that they seemed to break if they were folded.
But now, on that slender wrist, a hideous wound is still oozing blood. Below the wrist, a pot of earthenware the size of a washbasin has already received more than half of the pot of blood, and the air is thick. The smell of blood comes from this.
Fiaran was slightly taken aback, because from what he saw, the rapid blood loss from Emma's body was obviously caused by the villagers, not because Emma was accidentally injured.
Fiaran knew that in ancient times on earth, when medical conditions were backward, people sometimes used this kind of bloodletting therapy when they were sick. For Emma, it was obvious that this treatment would only kill her.
Telling the village chief to take away the blood basin that caused headaches, Fiaran pondered for a moment, then put his hand into his arms, and took out a bottle of low-grade golden sore medicine from the package, and sprinkled it on the little girl's wrist. Wrap it up with gauze, then take out another bottle of low-grade hemostatic powder, help Emma up, and pour half a bottle down for the little girl.
On the focus list, Emma's health bar rose straight up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Fiaran didn't stop until it was three quarters full.
"This way there should be no problem." Fiaran got up and said to Village Chief Raul after putting Emma back on the kang.
Although the "poisoning" debuff on Emma has not disappeared yet, the countdown has already begun, and it is only a matter of time before it dissipates. The blood loss caused by poisoning will only weaken Emma for a period of time at most, and will not threaten her life. . The "tearing" debuff has been eliminated after applying the golden sore medicine just now. Of course, this is a sight that only Fiaran himself can see.
In fact, Fei Yaran decided to use this method to save Emma after careful consideration, because whether it is using Qixiu's Yunshang mentality or the light-type water-type healing magic, the action is too big, and the magic is not enough. Accompanied by light effects, it is too high-profile for Fiaran who just appeared on the mainland.
That's why he chose the relatively low-key method of pouring Xiaohong directly into the little girl.But even so, for humans, Emma's face regained its blood color too quickly, and the original painful and weak expression quickly dissipated and became peaceful.
"Oh... this is really a miracle..." Village Chief Raul obviously didn't expect Fiarran to be able to heal Emma's injury, and the effect was so good.
He stared blankly at Fei Yaran, as if he suddenly remembered something, his eyes were filled with fear for a moment, and he almost gasped and said, "Master Jade, are you... are you a priest from Pandora?"
Except for the priests of the Temple of Light, Raul couldn't think of anyone else who could do such a miraculous thing.
"No, I'm just an ordinary traveler." Shaking his head slightly to deny Raul's frightened question, Fiaran looked at Raul with a puzzled look, "Why do you think I'm a priest?"
Priest is the human collective term for all the staff of the Temple of Light scattered across the continent.
What's interesting is that although the Temple of Light is a place set up by the Celestial Clan on the mainland to worship the God of Light, apart from the central temple in the center of the mainland where there are priests from the Celestial Clan, the other Temples of Light scattered throughout the mainland are responsible for The operating personnel, including Bishop Guangming, are all made up of human beings themselves.
"Because apart from the priest, I really can't think of anyone else who can save Emma." With thin fingers gently stroking Emma's little head, Village Chief Raul said in a hoarse voice.
"How come, is there no one else in the village who can treat illnesses?" Fiaran couldn't help asking, feeling a little strange in his heart.
"No, not to mention our small village without a name, even in towns like Jacob Town, if you want to cure a disease, you can only ask the priests of the temple." Raul shook his head, slowly Said, the old face is full of helplessness towards the world, "But, in a place like ours, even if someone is really sick, there is no money to invite the priests... Even if they have money, the priests will also be because the journey is too long. If it's too far away, it won't come at all."
In other words, here, once sick or injured, you can only resign yourself to fate, or simply bleed and wait to die.
Sensing such unfinished words on Village Chief Raul's face, Fiaran couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
From the point of view that the human medical system is completely dependent on the Temple of Light, the penetration of the Celestial Clan into the human world in the past few hundred years seems to be far more profound than Fiaran analyzed from various news.
However, Fei Yaran also understood why the Celestial Clan did this.
Teacher Ans once said that the reason why Noras, the lord of the Celestial Clan, claimed to be the God of Light to save the world was to collect beliefs from humans.
But belief, for the vast majority of human beings, only occurs when there is a need for God.
For human beings, birth, old age, sickness and death, which hurt the most, are obviously the things that scare them the most.
The Celestial Clan monopolized the medical business of the Human Clan and changed it to be controlled by priests. In this way, human beings had to rely only on the Temple of Light when facing illness, life and death.
And if the entire country, from the princes and nobles to the traffickers and pawns, has the same attitude towards the Temple of Light, it is no wonder that the power of the Celestial Clan in the Human Clan has grown to what it is today.
After all, in this world, there is no one who is not afraid of death.
"Chairman Raul, Emma is fine now, let's go back first and let her have a good rest." Seeing that the old village chief fell into deep thought after speaking, Fei Yaran reminded.
Village Chief Raul came to his senses after hearing the words, "Yes, yes, I will ask Mary to come in and take care of Emma. She will be very happy to see Emma's current appearance." After finishing speaking, Village Chief Raul He opened the door first and walked out.
Fiaran naturally followed closely behind.
Village Chief Raul obviously has great prestige in the village, which can be seen from the fact that the villagers are obviously full of defense against Fiaran, but they still leave the house under his orders.
And after Raul and Fiaran came out, everyone kept staring at Village Chief Raul, and when he spoke, there was no too chaotic scene.
Raul also seemed to see that Fiaran seemed to have something to ask him, so after briefly telling everyone that Emma was fine, he took Yaka's hand and walked home.
Naturally, Fieran would not stay here.Glancing at Yin who was alone not far from Emma's house, and motioning for him to follow, Fiaran took two quick steps and came to Village Chief Raul.
"Master 'Emerald', if you have anything you want to ask, just ask." When he was about to reach Village Chief Raul's house, the old man said suddenly.
"Then I won't be polite." After saying this with a smile, Fiaran pondered for a moment before saying, "I want to know why Emma was poisoned?"
Village Chief Raul stopped suddenly, and turned to look at Fiaran, with obvious surprise in his eyes, "How do you know... Emma is poisoned?"
Not only did I know that she was poisoned, I also knew that the cause of the poisoning was the perennial miasma in the misty forest.
Although she was thinking so in her heart, Fei Yaran still had a mysterious expression on her face, "Since I can cure her, it is because I know what she is for."
The miasma in the misty forest, Fiaran has been familiar with it all these years.The miasma is completely immune to elves, but for other races, it is not something that can be easily dealt with. After all, the miasma is more or less a protective line of Azeroth, which can block most people who want to explore The creatures of Azeroth.
Therefore, Fiaran was surprised when he realized that the poison on Emma's body came from the foggy forest.
After all, the appearance of Village Chief Raul sternly warning him not to get close to the foggy forest didn't seem like he was lying.
And judging from the villagers' attitude towards Village Chief Raul, it doesn't seem like they will go against his words.
So, what was it that made Emma, a little girl who was only eleven or twelve years old, go to the misty forest against the village chief's order?
Is there any connection between this and the disappearance of young and middle-aged men in the village?
Village Chief Raul stared deeply at Fiaran.
From the moment he met the "Jade" lord, he knew that neither he nor his friend Yin was a simple person, and the process of "Jade" saving Emma's life made Lao even more so. Village head Er is sure that these two people must have a lot of background.
But since they saved Emma's life, they are the benefactors of the whole village.
Therefore, even if the real identities of "Jade" and Yin are not known, Village Chief Raul can't do anything to hide the issue of the savior.
What's more, he always felt that these two should have nothing to do with the temple or the dignitaries of Jacob Town.
Thinking of this, Village Chief Raul collected himself, and then answered Fiaran's question, "Actually, Emma was poisoned in the foggy forest."
Before Fiaran asked him why the little girl ran to the misty forest, Village Chief Raul continued in one breath: "I think, you and Mr. Yin should have noticed that there are no young adults in our village."
Fei Yaran nodded upon hearing this.
Village Chief Raul continued: "This matter started more than 100 years ago. Don't look at our village now, we have actually lived here for hundreds of years. More than 100 years ago, Jacob Town suddenly discovered the half-moon stone mine. After the temple got the news, it quickly started to organize mining. Later... because of the huge amount of mining, more and more miners are needed. Every year, the temple recruits miners near Jacob Town, but most of them are voluntary..."
When Raul said this, he paused, and then continued: "However, since more than 20 years ago, after a new mayor was appointed in Jacob Town, he began to forcibly capture young adults from nearby villages and send them to mining areas. "
"Our village is what it is today because of this."
"There are no young adults, and the crops in the fields can't be planted in the spring, so the women have to grow some vegetables... After a few years, the children in the village grew up and were taken away again. Now , as soon as the village saw outsiders coming, they were afraid that they would come to arrest them again...Yaka's father was also taken away by them, and his mother fell seriously ill after that, and went to see him not long after. Without the God of Light, Yaka and I are the only ones left in the family."
Hearing this, Fei Yaran raised his eyebrows unexpectedly.
The so-called half-moon stone is a gemstone that can test the magic attribute that he found from the priests of the Celestial Clan when he was in the Dillon Desert.Most of these gems are transparent and white, and there are also translucent ones, which emit a faint moonlight-like halo under the light, so they are named half-moon stones.Fiaran only learned of its name after asking Mr. Ans.
"What's going on with Emma, isn't she a girl?"
Hearing Fiaran's question, Village Chief Raul showed a look of embarrassment, mixed with a little anger and injustice, "Emma was favored by the son of the mayor's family before, and the mayor sent someone to take Emma away a few days ago. Ma, that child hid directly in the forest... When they couldn't find Emma and left, when we went to find Emma near the forest, she was already poisoned and unconscious."
Fei Yaran nodded, but after thinking about Emma's age, he couldn't help feeling embarrassed that the second ancestor of the Zhang family actually had a heavy taste for children.
This kind of bullying and domineering things, in fact, will happen no matter where there are people.Although Fei Yaran sympathized with the villagers of Wuming Village, what he wanted to know was what role those so-called priests who spread blessings for the God of Light played in this matter.
"The mayor of Jacob Town is acting so domineeringly, is there no one to stop it?" Since Jacob Town is the place where half-moon stones are mined, the Temple of Light will definitely send someone to supervise it.According to Village Chief Raul's words, the mayor seemed to be acting quite recklessly. If there were priests stationed in Jacob's Town, then those priests would certainly not be ignorant of this.
"I heard that the mayor is related to a certain lord in the imperial capital, even if he is a priest, he has to sell him a little bit of face, so how could he offend the mayor for the sake of ordinary people like us... But just turn a blind eye It's just eyes." After finishing speaking, Village Chief Raul couldn't help but sighed deeply, his eyes were full of bitterness and powerlessness towards the world.
After listening, Fiaran nodded with lowered eyes, and didn't ask any more questions.
Now that he got the news he wanted, Fiaran soon decided to bid farewell to Village Chief Raul and Little Yaka, and went to Jacob Town to check on the situation.
Before leaving, Fiaran left a lot of sweet potatoes for Village Chief Raul, and taught him how to grow sweet potatoes.For this reason, the old village head was so excited that his eyes were red, and he almost couldn't help crying on the spot because he knew that sweet potatoes are easy to grow and can be directly used as staple food. For their entire village, it was like saving lives.
Therefore, even though Fei Yaran repeatedly blocked him, the old man kowtowed to him a few times to thank him.
Fiaran felt uncomfortable seeing it, thought for a while, then took out a few grasses from his backpack, pointed them out to Raul, and then told him which kind of grass can stop bleeding, which one can cure headache and brain fever, and which one can treat diarrhea ...
After pointing one by one, the old village chief almost knelt down for him again, so Fei Yaran had no choice but to pull Yin Huo away quickly.
"Master 'Emerald'..." When he was about to reach the entrance of the village, Yaka's crisp cry came from behind him.
Fiaran let go of Yin's sleeve, and looked back at the little guy running up to him.Kneeling down and rubbing little Yaka's head, Fei Yaran smiled, "What's the matter with Yaka calling you uncle?"
Hearing Fiaran's words, Yaka stretched out his hand cautiously, grabbed Fiaran's sleeve, and asked in a low voice, "My lord...are you a 'heretic'?"
Fei Yaran was taken aback.
The so-called "heresy" is what the Celestial Clan has called the humans with magical talents that they have hunted and killed over the years. They preach that human beings with magical talents are the incarnation of devils, so human beings always have fear and rejection of "heretics" Psychologically, even among relatives, once "heretics" are discovered, they will report to the temple without hesitation, and the "heretics" will be handed over to the temple for execution.
Among human beings, the word "heretic" is almost equivalent to a disaster. Everyone's expression changes when they talk about it, and the "heresy" that is discovered often ends up extremely tragic.
That's why Fiaran was surprised when Yaka asked him if he was a "heretic."
"Why do you ask that?" Even Village Chief Raul didn't see it, Fiaran wanted to know how the child knew.
"When I was in the kitchen at noon, I saw you suddenly conjure such a big fireball." Yaka said so, and did not forget to draw a big circle on his hand to show the size of the fireball.
Fiaran was taken aback by his tone of voice, and pinched the little guy's face with a smile, "If uncle is really a 'heretic', aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
Little Yaka: "..."
"But, your lord saved Emma's life, you are a good man!" After a while, the little guy stared at his round eyes and pouted slightly.
The smile on Fiaran's face gradually softened, "Yaka, remember what you said today. Good people and bad people should never be judged by whether they are 'heretics'."
"So you really are a heretic, right?" Little Yaka exclaimed excitedly with surprise in his eyes, but then, he suddenly covered his mouth and looked around vigilantly. When he realized that there was no one else here except the three of them, he patted his chest and whispered, "Fortunately no one else overheard you, otherwise you would be in danger."
"Even if someone hears it, I won't be in any danger." With a smile, he squeezed the little guy's skinny face, and Fiaran smiled and said, "Because there is no one who can hurt me." .” After speaking, he stood up straight and touched little Yaka’s head.
"Why?" Little Yaka raised his head high and asked dully.
"Because my strength is strong enough to prevent me from being harmed in the face of power and force."
After saying this, Fiaran lowered his head and smiled at the little guy, then turned and left with Yin, "Goodbye, little Yaka."
As the sun sets, the dim light of dusk stretches the shadows of Fiaran and Yin very long.
Little Yaka stared blankly at their receding backs, and suddenly put his hand on his left chest.
This is the first time someone has said such words to him since he was born.
As long as it's strong enough, it won't take any damage.
So, if one day, he becomes as powerful as Master "Jade", will the people in the village never be bullied by anyone again?
For the first time in his young and innocent heart, the idea of wanting to become stronger sprouted.
Like a spark, young but indestructible.
"You like humans very much." Yin, who had been following Fiaran until Wuming Village disappeared completely behind him, said suddenly.
It is a declarative sentence with a flat tone, not a question, nor a rhetorical question.
So much so that Fiaran was stunned when he heard it.
He actually didn't quite understand why Yin came to such a conclusion, could it be, "Because I saved Emma today?"
Hearing this, Yin stopped, and Fei Yaran had no choice but to stop too.
He could feel that Yin was looking at him at the moment.Although Yin is taller than him, but because the other party is wearing a cloak and his eyebrows are covered by the hat, Fieran can't see Yin's expression at this time, but can only see the other party's straight nose, and pale Pink thin lips.
"Not only the little girl, but also to the old man and the little boy, as well as other humans, you were gentle and polite enough, and you were completely sincere, as if you were dealing with elves instead of humans."
As an elf for 20 years, Fei Yaran naturally knows that the superiority and pride of elves come from the soul, but Yin doesn't know that he has been a human being for nearly 20 years before these 30 years, so he is very clear. Like elves, they also have feelings and thoughts. They feel pain when they are injured, and they feel happy when they are happy.
In terms of soul, what is the difference between humans and elves?
Therefore, even if it is rationally clear that Silver's statement is perfectly normal for an elf, the human part of his soul cannot agree with it at all.
Taking a deep breath, trying to get rid of the oppressive feeling in his chest, Fiaran stared fixedly at Yin's delicate chin, pursed his lips, and then said: "Yes, I admit that human beings, regardless of appearance or strength, They are completely incomparable with the elves, but this is a very complicated race that cannot be summed up in a few words. From the words of Village Chief Raul, you should also be able to hear that they are greedy, ignorant, bullying, and even It can be called evil, but you can’t deny that there are also many human beings who are simple, clean, and creative, and in order to survive, they can often burst out with power beyond imagination.”
"I don't know if I like them, but what is certain is that I don't want this race to survive in this state."
"No matter who it is, the Celestial Clan or our elves, they should not interfere in their lives."
Human beings should live more freely.
This is what he, who has a human soul, wishes from the bottom of his heart after learning about the current living conditions of human beings on the mainland.
It's not just for systematic missions. For human beings, Fieran always hopes that these former compatriots will not be so cowardly and have been subject to any race, and can live proudly like humans on Earth.
"Are you angry?" There was a trace of confusion in Yin's voice.
Fei Yaran couldn't help but frowned slightly, "Elder Yin, Teacher An Si should just ask you to protect my safety, instead of analyzing my every move!"
He didn't like Yin's appearance as if he could see through him at any time. The most important thing was that the other party said it so lightly after seeing through.
"Little guy, has anyone ever told you that sometimes your emotions fluctuate like a human being." Yin slightly raised the corners of his lips and said with a smile: "What a cub who is not polite."
"I've never seen an elf like you who is more difficult to get along with than Garcia." Looking at Yin expressionlessly, Fiat confronted him.
"That's right," Yin Wenyan was not angry, but tilted his head slightly, facing the direction of Azeroth, with a smile on his lips, "The king told me before that his student is a good boy who is humble and sensible. ...However, after getting along all the way, I have some doubts about Wang's judgment, maybe I should write to him for advice."
"Don't think I'll be afraid of you if you move out of Mr. Ans." Couldn't help but roll his eyes at Yin, Fiaran couldn't help but whispered, but in the end it was because he heard Mrs. Ans' praise for him from the other party , and couldn't help but blushed slightly at the tips of his ears.
Yin saw all this in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, but there was a hint of a smile in his eyes covered by the cloak.
After a brief chat, the two embarked on the journey to Jacob Town again.
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