Chapter 868 850. Death
They were quite polite.
This made Lan En feel relieved.
Maybe this group of people before was really just dull.
The witcher thought optimistically.
These people were so thin and tall that they looked like skinny, malnourished men.
But in terms of height alone, they can indeed keep eye level with Lan En.
There were about ten lumberjacks in this group. The one who took off his hat in response to Lan En's greeting was probably a small foreman. After he stood up, many lumberjacks focused their attention on him.
After taking off the straw hat, the image of the little foreman was very different from Lan En's expectation.
The rough and messy hair is still covered with damp heat from working.
The cheeks are thin and even sunken.
"I am a lost traveler. After taking a nap, I can't even figure out whether it is morning or afternoon."
Lan En said naturally, while using alchemy from the lower back. He took out a loaf of bread from his leather bag and handed it over.
"Can you help me? I am unfamiliar with this place, but I am very sad."
The foreman looked at the large loaf of bread in Lan En's hand, and then looked up again Lan En himself.
Finally he took out the towel tied around his neck, wiped his dark hands, and took the bread.
Turn around and say hello: "Du, take a rest and have something to eat."
This is the first time Lan En has spoken to this group of people since he arrived.
Stiffness and dryness does not only refer to the voice and vocal cords. Lan En even felt that the thinking in their heads was very difficult.
“This is, Zengpu Forest. And now, it’s morning. No. Afternoon.?”
The foreman waved his stiff arms and first asked his group to sit down and rest, and then introduced Lan En.
But as he talked, he seemed to have no sense of time. There was still hesitation in his stiff and dry voice.
This made Lan En's eyes narrow slightly.
Judging from the way the foreman greeted his companions for food just now, he should at least be a normal person with emotional intelligence and experience in leading a team.
But so far, even people with Down syndrome are better than him in terms of their movements and speech performance.
What is going on?
"The Forest of Punishment?"
But Lan En did not reveal his real doubts. Instead, he asked about the name of the place first.
Zhe punishment, also known as Zhe punishment.
This is an ancient saying, in vernacular it means - piercing punishment.
A kind of punishment with a big gap between the upper and lower limits. The lower limit is to be stabbed to death with a single shot, which is clean and neat. And the upper limit.
Some people nailed his limbs first and then stabbed him to death like the crucifixion of Jesus. There are also cases where, like in the heavy flavor legend, the spear head is inserted into the victim's lower body, and then he stands up, using gravity to slowly penetrate the whole body and protrude from the mouth.
"You don't know? Oh. By the way, you are a traveler."
The leading woodcutter, like his fellow men, sat on the ground with the bread Lan En gave them, and was The wood they had cut lay at their respective feet.
The bread given by Lan En was very big. Even if it was divided among nearly ten people, each person still had a piece as big as half a palm.
Thick, strong, and very filling.
This group of lumberjacks had been working very hard, and the hair on their heads was lying on their foreheads due to sweat.
But I don’t know why, each of these people dressed themselves up.
Even if she is naked, only her wrists and ankles are exposed.
Lan En saw that they had been wiping sweat, but no one was willing to take off their collars and go shirtless.
"Aren't you here to pay homage to the fire-passing ceremony? Underneath the Zengpu Forest is the ruins of the famous French Fortress where the famous Xinwang [Flan Undead Team] stayed."
"This forest and the undead settlement on the mountain behind are all fiefdoms of the Duke of Ulster."
Lan En pretended to be enlightened.
A lot of information came out at once, and Mentos was working with Lan En to sort it out.
The ‘Fire Passing Ceremony’ sounds like a very famous and large-scale ceremony, so much so that it attracts many people to travel long distances to watch the ceremony. ‘King of Fire’ seems to refer to some kind of title, connected with the previous ‘Fire Passing Ceremony’, ‘Fire and Fire’. Lan En guessed that he might be the host of this ceremony?
‘The French Undead’, ‘The Duke of Ulster’. These things lacked pre-descriptions in the lumberjack leader’s words, and Lan En didn’t understand what they meant for a while.
I only know that this world still has classes, and that the place I am in is a duke's fiefdom.
It seems that even though, as the lady in the lake said, this is a place where even the basis of existence is very different from other worlds, some things can still make people feel familiar.
Lan En didn’t expect to know much from the lumberjacks’ mouths, so after finding out how the undead settlement came to be, he didn’t ask any more questions.
Although the name "Undead Settlement" is strange, a place that pursues and features "longevity" should also have such a nickname.
After all, it is a settlement. There must be more people than in the forest, and there should be more information available.
Lan En was planning his future actions in his mind.
At the same time, these lumberjacks seemed to have really not had enough to eat for a long time.
Lan En saw them holding the black bread he gave them and stuffing it into their mouths hungrily.
I really don’t know how the Duke of Ulster managed to make a group of woodcutters who didn’t even have food to focus on their work.
But soon, Lan En had no time to think too much.
“Ugh, uh, uh, uh!”
A lumberjack holding the black bread in his hand and chewing it fiercely, it seems that he ate too quickly, and the black bread was too dry and too solid. , resulting in being choked in the throat.
The eyeballs on his already thin face suddenly protruded like a frog. At the same time, his face was suppressed and his long and thin palms were waving helplessly in the air.
The woodcutter around him quickly put the bread in his mouth and tried to help him with his free hands.
Lan En also noticed the abnormality and quickly stepped over the legs of the leader of the lumberjack team, wanting to go over and help.
But within these four or five steps, the man stopped moving.
Lan En was in a daze.
After all, if the food chokes the trachea and throat, according to his common sense, it will take more than ten minutes before it becomes life-threatening.
So he didn't walk in a hurry just now. He took four or five steps for three seconds.
But just three seconds of suffocation. That person is dead? !
Although the dead man's body was so thin that it felt like a mummy that should have been buried long ago, but it was too soon.
What made the demon hunter feel even more abnormal was that everyone, including the lumberjack leader, was stunned for a moment when faced with the sudden death of their companions.
Then it seemed that he was no longer surprised and no longer took it to heart.
The woodcutter who had come to help with black bread in his mouth just now sat down next to the corpse and started eating again.
The demon hunter frowned slightly, and at the same time, his left hand was placed on the handle of the knife at his waist, and he slowly retreated.
“Man, one of your men is dead.”
Lan En, who slowly backed away, walked to the lumberjack leader who just passed by and looked down at the leader sitting on the ground. , said in an inexplicable tone.
"Isn't this a big deal? Why do I think you don't seem to care?"
"It's a big deal."
The team leader seemed to have difficulty understanding the content of Lan En's words.
He repeated Lan En's words with difficulty.
"It seems like it's a big deal. Yes, someone died, it's a big deal."
"But why don't I care?"
The leader of the lumberjacks said something incomprehensible, as if he was confused by what he said.
The next moment. "Pfft!"
A sharp wooden point was suddenly lifted from behind the leader and thrust into the skinny body!
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(End of this chapter)