Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 72 Chapter 72 Old and New
"What was that just now..." Dagon hesitated After a while, two words were still squeezed out: "Things?"

"Thank you, War God." Geros stood in the sparse rain, kissed the holy symbol, and put it back on his neck. "No matter what it is... people, we can't deal with it. The rain is about to stop, so let's hit the road, at least change places."

Everyone looked at the quarry and nodded hard.

The team is about to start again, and everyone is busy again. Dagon picked up some rain to wash the cow's blood off the floor of his "room", and Toby was in charge of the car behind him, while he was harnessing the horse. "Hey Dagon, do you think it was War God Copas who blessed us?"

"I don't know. I just saw strange thunders falling from the sky, and it does have a bit of Holy Power aura. I can't tell if it's Copas, maybe the priest can."

"Maybe it's the blessing of Oli."

"Maybe." Dagon nods. Maybe you can ask Rhett, didn't he say that he has a good relationship with various Divine Immortals?
"Dagon, it's possible for me to know who that strange old man is... what is it." Toby pouted and made a tsk tsk sound.

"Then why didn't you tell the leader of Gerros?"

"I was so frightened that the leader stood up before I could remember." Toby sighed , patted his chest, and said: "Dagon, do you want to hear what I know?"

"If you don't let me speak, you will suffocate to death, and you will keep asking me along the way—who called me? Right in the car in front of you? Tell me."

Toby covered half of his face with his hands, and said mysteriously, "My grandma heard a story from a very distant relative of hers, The story mentions an old man who came out of the lightning."

"What's that story?" Dagon asked, wiping the blood on the carriage with a rag.

"I always thought it was a story to scare children, didn't expect to see it." Toby mounted his horse as fast as he could, then climbed into Dagon's carriage and said, "That old man never Don't say his name, but people call him the disaster thunder messenger. He always shows up before a huge disaster, using thunder to warn and scare anyone who sees him. If you're smart enough, run away as far away as possible Well, then there's a glimmer of survival to avoid disaster."

Dagon wiped the blood, put the rag over the car, wiped the sweat and sat down beside Toby. "The story won't be so simple, what else did your grandma's distant relative say?"

"Well, it was in late autumn when they met the messenger of disaster and thunder, and it rarely rained at that time, but every time Rain makes the weather even colder. The family in the story are hunters who hunt rabbits and foxes for the lord and keep a few deer so that the lord does not come home empty-handed when he holds a hunting event.”

"Suddenly one day, just like we did yesterday, the sky suddenly darkened and the rain poured down - I should have thought of this story earlier." Toby rubbed his nose and said, "The rain that day Dropped suddenly, and soon waist-deep—or into the dwarf's knees. The wind was cold, and ice cubes fell from the sky in no time."

"Ice cubes?" Dagon Startled, he thought of the ice floes in the Kooshui Gorge Glacier. "A drop of ice can't kill everyone?"

"Smashed to death? Other races don't necessarily die. Our halflings' heads are small and thin, so we won't be smashed anyway." Toby said : "They put the pot on their heads and put clothes under the pot, and quickly ran out of the house. They were going to hide in a cave not far from their home, which is definitely safer than a thatched house."

" Usually, they use the cave as a storage room and cover it with bushes and grass. No one knows where the entrance of the cave is. There are robbers everywhere, and halflings are best to bully them. I haven't seen where the mountain is for an hour, I think I got lost, or my eyes were confused by spell. At this point, the thunder started."

"You know that lightning travels with water and climbs They might also be struck by lightning when they got to the tree, so they thought they were dead. At this moment, they saw lightning in the distance continuously hitting the same spot, and there was a white fish intermittent swimming all the way towards them. Come here..."

"Wait, is it a fish or an old man?"

"Am I talking about a fish? I'm talking about a white old man swimming like a fish. ."

"Forget it, I don't want to hear it anymore." Dagon shook his head and stood up, ready to go outside to see if anyone needed help.

"No, it was indeed a fish when he told me about it at the time, and an old man stood up only after getting close. He was an old man halfling, holding a log and floating on the water. He Very old, old enough to grow a beard on our lips - none of us halflings have beards, unlike you dwarves."

"This story is getting more and more outrageous. A halfling old man, not a human old man, so..."

Toby shook his head vigorously, took Dagon's arm, and said, "I'm not making up a story first, this story is really what I've heard before. .The old man in the thunder and lightning warned them not to go east, hurry to the south, hide under the sun. Then, the old man got into the cave, and the mountainside hole disappeared after an explosion. Only then did they realize that it was because of rising water , they didn't recognize the surrounding terrain."

"The halflings took the warning from mysterious very seriously, so they started heading south without waiting for the rain to stop. To the south was a forest, the only way to hide from the sun. It was a glade full of white rubble. They were hiding there, and then the ground split open and a volcano popped up."

"Everywhere was either burned or covered in ash Buried, and they..." Toby sold out, saying: "A yellow dragon was crushed to death by a gushing volcano, gliding down and just protecting the clearing with its body and wings. So, obedient and The good halfling hid under the dragon's body and was not harmed by the volcano. The story is over."

Dagon puffed out his cheeks, as if he was about to let go, but eventually let it out slowly. , Don't say hurtful things. "Okay, this is your story. An old man with his own thunder and lightning issued a warning, and people have to accept the warning and follow it, so as to be safe. I understand this moral, but what did the old man we just met warn? "

"Someone wants to destroy the world, others can stop him. Others..." Toby shook his head, his shoulders slumped, and said, "I don't understand."

"I didn't get it either. Maybe someone else got it, so the warning was addressed to them." Dagon held onto the side of the carriage, rolled over and jumped down, standing firmly on the ground. "If you have free time, you might as well ask someone who understands it, and then tell Geros your story. I haven't left Jiangu City in sixty years, and I don't know much about the outside world."

"You may be right." Toby jumped down too, but instead of looking for the others, especially Gerlos, he went to his own horse. The horses in the convoy didn't have enough rest, and now they would blow their noses and heads and fight each other with their hind legs and tails.

The convoy moved slowly and left the quarry. The rain gradually ceased, but the damage from the heavy rain was now apparent. Most of the roads were destroyed and either turned into puddles or disappeared altogether. In contrast, some areas occupied by grass or short shrubs are safer.

Maipu took a one-handed machete to clear the road ahead, cutting down bushes or tall grass that might entangle the car from time to time to make a way for the back. He seemed to have a peculiar intuition for the terrain, and the crowd trusted him so much that they followed him unnoticed through the valleys and through the woods. After two hours, Dagon had no idea what was going on, and the convoy came to a mountain ridge. There is also a road sufficient for the carriage, as it is high up and not soaked or washed away.

The rain stopped completely, and the sun climbed out. At this time, everyone knew that it was the evening of the next day. The red clouds occupy half of the sky, like a continuous flame, and the other half of the sky is still black, and the dark clouds are layer upon layer, as if they are pressing step by step. A flock of black birds quacked and flew over the head of the convoy. They could take to the sky again, and they were supposed to be cheerful, but their chirping was disturbing. The air was filled with the smell of burning charcoal, and the irritating smell of grass absorbing too much moisture.

“I probably know where we are.” Maipu let the team continue along the road on the ridge, and ran to the middle of the team to find Gerlos. "I saw Duck Lake, on our side and behind. That is to say, follow the ridge and find a way down, which should be not far from White Horse Town. If there is no damage there, we can rest."

Through the gap in the tarp, Dagon could see Geros, a scowl clearly tangled in his face. He blew the smoke ring, frowned and thought deeply, then stomped hard on the ground. "Would it be possible for White Horse Town to be spared from such a heavy rain?"

"It's too bad. Boss, are you worried that the affected people will transfer the damage to us?"

"I have to consider this possibility. I would prefer to find a place that can avoid sight, preferably a larger space, and let the team rest first. Tess's bowstring needs fire maintenance, and we also have to polish the iron. Rust is not good."

"Okay, I'll try to find an open space and see if I can go down from the ridge first." Maipu scratched the scar on the top of his head that seemed to be a map, and said: "Boss, just find an open space. We can still be found as long as we make a fire."

"At night, taking advantage of the night, people in the village can't see the smoke. Look east of us, The dark clouds are drifting this way, and there is a good chance that there will be no moonlight and starlight tonight, which will keep us relatively safe. Maipu, the order goes on, the whistle is prohibited now, and everyone should be quiet. Also, don't smoke."

Geros took the lead. He rinsed the pipe directly into the puddle on the side of the road, wiped it carefully, and carefully placed it in his arms. Dagon jumped out of the car and found Gerros. He said that he used to be a scout for the hunting party, and he could see at night, which was suitable for front-end reconnaissance when it was getting darker and darker. But before Geros could express his opinion, Maipu ran back from the front.

"I found something not quite right. There were people hanging from seven or eight poles and smoking. You should go and have a look."

(End of this chapter)

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