The Wizard's Infinite Journey

Chapter 7 Wraith
In Ximu Village, the atmosphere in place seemed a little silent for a while.

Outside Amur's residence, several corpses were placed there.

There were three corpses in total, two of which were not complete, as if they had been bitten by wild beasts, and only the last corpse remained intact.

The deceased's face was distorted, as if he had experienced something very frightening, and even his skin was a little shriveled, which looked quite strange.

"The three of them were found in the morning."

The old leader of Ximu Village sighed: "It should be to get more gains, so I went to the depths of the dense forest without authorization."

"It should have been killed by a wild beast."

Yamu observed for a while, and then judged: "Let the others rest first."

The voice fell, and the people around suddenly became tense.

"Relax, the plan to acquire Greenstone remains unchanged."

Amu's words made these people relax again.

Again, compared to the beasts and dangers in the dense forest, what they are more afraid of is that Yamu will stop buying green stones.

That was the real blow to them.

In Ximu Village today, the way of collecting green stones has been regarded as their hope for the future. Many people hope to collect green stones, get money from Yamu, and leave this place to settle in the bustling city.

"These three gentlemen died for my mission, and I will personally give a subsidy of one gold coin to each of their families."

Amu's voice followed.

This is the pension.

After these words fell, the surrounding voices suddenly stopped and became quiet.

The expressions on the faces of many people changed from sympathy to envy as they watched the family members of the three deceased.

Although human life is priceless, in this mountain village, a gold coin is really worth more than a life.

You must know that in the past, when they went hunting in the mountains, they also encountered various dangers, and the death rate was not low. Sometimes they died when they said they died, and nothing was left behind.

Now working for Yamu, they can still get a pension after death, which makes them feel excited.

The morale that had seemed a little low because of the dead people was suddenly boosted again.

After a while, everyone else left.

Originally, besides Yamu, only Kali and the old leader of Ximu Village were left.

"grown ups."

The old leader looked at Yamu with a complicated expression on his face: "You are so kind."

"I have never seen a gentleman so generous as you."

"After that, if you continue like this, you may lose a lot of gold coins."

"Ok?"

Amu looked up, seeming a little puzzled.

"A gold coin is already a lot of money in the eyes of many people."

The old leader smiled wryly and said, "You are so generous, those elderly people may take the initiative to go to the depths of the dense forest to die."

Yamu thought for a while, then suddenly realized.

This is a matter of perception.

He gave the money out of sympathy, but there is obviously a problem with giving too much money.

The life of the mountain people is cheap. For many people here, if they can use their own life to leave a pension of about one gold coin to their children and family members, many people will be quite happy.

He is so generous now that many people may take the initiative to find opportunities to go deep in the dense forest for the pension.

Of course it would be best if you could find the green stone. If you couldn't find it, you would die directly, and you could get a good pension.

"So I need your help, leader."

Amur admitted that he had been negligent.

But there is still time to remedy it.

"Starting today, you will divide those people into five groups, and stipulate how many people can go in every day."

"Tell them that there will be a chance later if they want to work hard, but before that, if they go in and die without authorization, they won't even have a copper coin."

Amu said casually.

The old leader nodded and hurried down to explain.

After he left, Yamu stepped aside and began to examine the corpse in front of him.

The three corpses in front of him are there.

There is nothing wrong with the first two, they were indeed killed by ferocious beasts.

But the third body was different.

Not only the strange appearance of the corpse, but also the breath above the corpse.

The breath was very strange, and it gave Yamu a very uncomfortable feeling, and even gave him an instinctive sense of threat.

What is this?
Could it be the so-called curse circulating around here?
Yamu frowned, secretly guessing in his heart.

From the beginning, he guessed that there should be some kind of extraordinary power in this dense forest, and now it seems that this is the case.

In that dense forest, there are not only extraordinary powers, but they have even begun to actively attack people.

Is it because they gradually reached the inner circle?

After thinking for a while, he still had someone notify Kali and the leader of Ximu Village, and asked them to restrain the nearby villagers and not enter the dense forest.

Time passed slowly again.

Maybe it was because Amou's restraint and warning were effective, or maybe it was because everyone was more cautious after that, and there was no more incident in the next few days.

But Yamu knew in his heart that this kind of peace could not last forever.

The range of the dense forest is limited, and the green stones in the periphery will eventually be collected one day.

It will be a matter of time before it involves the interior of the dense forest.

But sooner or later before that, Yamu can still develop for a period of time with peace of mind, so that he can strengthen himself a little more.

But the accident came sooner than he imagined.

It didn't take long, just five days later, the accident happened.

"What did you say?"

Looking at the old leader in front of him, Yamu was a little surprised: "Cali also went in?"

"Yes, it is."

In front of Yamu, the old leader looked a little ugly.

He explained to Amur what had happened in detail.

At the beginning, it was the villagers of the three Ximu villages who violated the order and ran to a deeper place without authorization.

Although it wasn't inside the dense forest, it was considered a relatively dangerous place.

After Kali knew the news, he immediately took people to stop it, and wanted to bring him back.

But as of now, none of these people, including Cali himself, have returned.

"Take me there."

Yamu thought for a while, and quickly made a decision.

It would be fine if there were only one or two people, but now that so many people have disappeared back and forth, it is still unreasonable not to look for them.

But just to be on the safe side, he still brought a lot of people with him.

This time when he came to Ximu Village, he brought ten guards besides Kali, and now he brought all of them.

These ten guards are all well-trained warriors by Yamu. They all have complete equipment and horses. With Yamu, an apprentice knight, even a team of two or 300 people dares to rush to fight.

The old leader also brought along young and strong people from Ximu Village. There were more than 30 people in total, all of whom were strong-bodied hunters who could make bows and arrows.

With such a force, Yamu has the confidence to deal with any unexpected situation.

A group of people went to the place where the three disappeared.

But when they got there, there was no trace of anyone.

Not only the three people before, but even those people brought by Cali and him were not found.

It's like disappearing out of thin air.

The old leader led the hunters to search for traces around, and finally made a judgment.

"They should have gone in deep."

His face was a little ugly, and he pointed in a direction ahead and said.

Following his guidance, Yamu looked up, hesitating a little.

The position they are in at the moment is only the outskirts of the dense forest.

According to the experience of so many days before this position, there will be no problems.

But if you go further, you will get closer to the interior, and it will be hard to say when the time comes.

Unknown dangers may be encountered.

Go in and find someone or leave?

Yamu couldn't help but hesitated.

But he didn't hesitate for long.

Because in front, suddenly, a burst of shouts came out.

That was the shout of several people before, including Cali.

And from the sound point of view, the distance is not very far.

"go!"

Yamu roughly judged the distance, and then quickly made a decision.

He took the lead and led the crowd to move on.

"found it!"

There was a sound.

The old leader showed surprise and found a missing person on the side of the road.

It was one of the men who came in with Cali.

Moving on, the rest of the people were also found one after another.

Their condition seems to be pretty good. Although their faces are inexplicably weak, they are still awake and seem to be fine.

Cali was the last to be found.

When he was found, he was hiding under a tree with a look of horror on his face.

Accompanied by the roar of the horse's hooves, he looked up, and saw Amu stepping off the horse.

"How do you feel now?"

Amu's voice rang in his ears.

Carly was full of horror.

"Lord be careful!"

As the words fell, an inexplicable coldness suddenly emerged.

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The sound of the long sword being unsheathed suddenly resounded.

In an instant, Yamu drew out his weapon, and without any hesitation, he slashed back with his sword.

The long sword slashed and collided with something in mid-air, making a crisp crackling sound.

Taking advantage of this gap, the people present finally saw the appearance of the thing clearly.

In front of Yamu at this moment is a strange life like a ghost.

He has a distorted human face, and his whole body is like a tiger, which is full of a dark and strange color, ferocious and terrifying.

Just watching, they felt a strong sense of palpitation and confusion, as if their spirits were disturbed by something.

Some people with weak willpower even have conflicts that want to spit out at this moment, and their entire brains become blank in an instant.

The silver-white long sword stabbed down fiercely, directly piercing through it, and the whole body was broken up.

But the wraith seemed to be unaffected, and began to reorganize after a short while.

"Is physical attack ineffective?"

Looking at the reaction of the wraith, Yamu couldn't help frowning.

From the moment he just walked into this area, he felt the weird atmosphere in this area.

The weird atmosphere that made him sick and subconsciously resented was particularly strong in this place.

Especially the aura of that wraith spirit, which made him unable to ignore it even if he wanted to.

But looking at the situation in front of him, even if he found the other party in time, the wraith in front of him was not as easy to deal with as he imagined.

(End of this chapter)