Medieval Reiki Revival

Chapter 112 Le Mans
On the second day of their journey from d'Artagnan they passed through a forest.

Seen from a distance, the south side of the cedar tree is oily and green. The leaves of the cedar tree are like rice, thin and oval in appearance, gathered together.

There are two hawthorn trees at the front of the road. The color of the leaves is not as good as that of the fir trees. Fortunately, the branches and leaves are lush, and the leaves look like wide-handled fans on the body.

Soaking hawthorn leaves in water has the effect of dredging blood, and parasites of fir trees can treat rheumatism.

Molière asked Ivan to stop. He saw wild mangoes nearby and planned to pick some to eat on the way.

Wild mangoes are much more acidic than planted mangoes. If you pick a bad one, your mouth will drool for a whole day.

In order to reach the destination as quickly as possible, the carriage basically does not stop much.

Molière could only eat dry food in the car. This kind of flatbread tasted astringent and dry, and it was purely for filling his stomach.

Coupled with the long journey, everyone is dizzy.

Ivan has [Reaction Force Muscle], and he can still bear it.

The other two were normal people, and they both wanted an excuse to stop and take a break.

Molière felt that his butt was almost unconscious, so he limped down to rest under the pretext of "picking lemons".

"Mr. Wizard, you see there are rabbits over there."

Kepler saw a rabbit grazing not far away, and he quickly yelled loudly, but he didn't expect that the movement made the rabbit wary, and it turned its ears and ran into the grass.

He hurried forward to chase after him. He had eaten big pancakes for several days, and today he wanted to get some meat to improve his meals.

Kepler's eyes were green, staring straight ahead like a hungry frog, walking forward quickly with his legs bent left and right.

Seeing the rabbit gradually disappearing, he was a little anxious, and he didn't even notice that the branch caught his hat.

"Hey, I'm going to go now."

Ivan sighed, and he watched helplessly as the other party walked into the depths of the woods.

"Just take it as a rest. When you enter the city, you have to be vigilant all the time. I hope you can go to the nearby countryside to find out some information."

Leaning against the car window, Ivan waited chatteringly, hoping that the two could hurry up.

But only a few minutes later, there was a scream from inside the bushes.

It was Kepler's voice.

He subconsciously jumped up and ran towards the direction of the sound.

After arriving at the destination, he saw Kepler sitting on the ground with a pale face, crawling backwards with both hands, and in front of him was a rabbit skin whose internal organs had been hollowed out.

Kepler lost his ability to move because of fear, and a bean-sized sweat fell from his forehead.

Ivan gradually became serious, and squatted down to observe the rabbit skin.

He picked up a corner with a branch, and the skin was like a layer of cloth on the tent frame. After a little fiddle with it, a bare skeleton emerged from the edge, and there was no flesh inside.

After a long time, Kepler staggered to his feet while leaning on the tree trunk.

Ivan asked: "What's going on?"

"I don't know, I just saw a shadow flashing by"

Kepler calmed down as much as possible, his eyes were still terrified, one hand supported the tree trunk, and the other pressed his thigh forcefully: "After that shadow flashed by, I... saw the rabbit become like this .”

The rabbit's skin was intact, except that it was a little thin from the side, and gray dirty fluff was messily scattered on the surface of the skin.

Probably due to the loss of moisture, the skin around the tail is somewhat wrinkled, and capillaries can be seen from the raised gap.

Ivan looked at the rabbit's body back and forth twice, and finally stood up.

"That's it, that's right."

"What is it?"

Ivan said lightly: "A kind of snake."

"What... what kind of snake... can eat the internal organs of rabbits in an instant."

Kepler's expression is very complicated. He has both worry about the unknown existence and agitation of personal emotions.In concrete terms, he couldn't help spewing out a few dirty words.

Ivan automatically filtered his foul language: "This one is raised by me."

".!"

"I remember that I used animals to test [Corrosion Concoction] before. I found that not all creatures can respond to this drug, only creatures with abnormal souls can, and the rat snake belongs to creatures with abnormal souls. Mazarin is also a human being with an abnormal soul."

Kepler was speechless, his lips parted slightly but he didn't know how to speak.

At last he showed a begging look: "Shall we catch it?"

"No, the forest is its protective color."

Ivan shook his head: "It's very difficult to find this kind of thing in such a large area, and it doesn't have the habit of having a fixed territory."

"We have to go."

"Leave at once, as you wish."

Kepler breathed a sigh of relief and felt that he seemed to be safe. He even pretended to be sorry: "It would be great if there was a way to catch or kill this harmful animal."

Ivan glanced at him in surprise: "I will consider sending someone here later, but not now."

Through experiments in the circus, the mutation caused by [Corrosion Concoction] can be divided into two types.

A kind of physical mutation, similar to a werewolf, only changes the physical body, but still retains human sanity, with average destructive power.

The other is soul mutation, where the soul and body change at the same time, resulting in stronger abilities and stronger destructive power, such as Mazarin.

There are very few creatures with abnormal souls.

So far, Ivan has only encountered a few.

And most of them have only undergone physical mutations, and there are only a few soul mutants in Mazarin who are still alive.

Ivan intentionally frightened him: "To be honest, you are very lucky. This kind of creature hunts so fast that ordinary people will never be able to react, and once it is drilled into its stomach, it will gnaw at a very fast speed. Eat your guts."

Kepler covered his stomach, his face was extremely ugly: "Are you sure it will?"

"Faster than you thought?"

Ivan threw away the branch: "It only took ten seconds to eat a rabbit, and it took no more than five minutes to eat a person. Considering that it may have grown a lot, the speed should be faster than this."

"God bless me."

Kepler crossed himself on the spot, and prayed until he got into the car.

The two of them left the woods, just in time to meet Molière who came back from picking mangoes. Ivan told him the story, but Kepler closed his eyes and trembled, and ignored whoever argued with him.

If the wheel of the carriage accidentally hit a rock and jumped on the spot, he could shrink into a ball, like a hedgehog.

Molière didn't see the rabbit's corpse, so he asked curiously, "Does this thing have a name?"

"Yes, I named it Hydralisk."

The carriage slowly left the area, and the fallen leaves were scattered on the road and crushed together with the mud.

A reptile with a carapace-like armor sticks out its eyes from the fallen leaves. Its eyes are narrow like two prism-shaped glass. The joint of the carapace is a leather-like tendon. The huge tail is used to maintain balance. Attached a layer of gray fine fluff.

It has armor-piercing thorns all over its face and near its back, and its claws are extremely sharp, capable of leaving marks on the rocks and bark where it rests—this is a Hydralisk, a petite mutant parasitic creature.

The sense of crisis brought by the Hydralisk can only last for a while, and their first priority is to find reinforcements.

Ivan and the others stayed overnight in the countryside near Le Mans.

Kepler rested early because of the fright.

However, Molière used his identity as a playwright to make friends with the rural people. He was also the only one among the three who did not reveal his identity, and the peasants trusted the playwright more.

Through investigation, Ivan and the others heard about some strange things about Le Mans.

First, although there is no Inquisition in Le Mans, there is a security force—that is, the urban police directly under Sarthe. They are in charge of almost everything, but they don't care about ordinary theft.

Second, a very strict curfew system.

If you go out at night, you will be imprisoned if you are light, and you will be executed directly if you are serious.

Third, be very particular about the layout of the house, every wall must have a cross mark.

"What the hell are they doing?"

Not to mention Ivan, even Molière became suspicious.

With doubts in mind, the three set foot on the road to Le Mans early the next morning.

When they got there, the city gate officials were checking the entrances and exits one by one, and the wanted warrants of Ivan and Kepler happened to be posted on the wall.

"You have to find a way to get in."

(End of this chapter)