Not a Witch

After finishing speaking, Lorraine Hill soared into the sky and flew towards the other side of the col, while the old man still stood where he was, silently watching the distant figure.

After a long time, several thin men from the village came over.

"Village chief, this woman..."

"You don't need to inquire. She has nothing to do with the recent incident. She is a disciple who came from afar. Don't provoke her easily." The old diary I left behind.

[Xianyu faction: Huiluzhou came to the door, and the surrounding forces are huge, but fortunately, most of them are peripheral factions, and there are not many real disciples... At the same time, it is also the source and main line of Zhaoye Palace...]

This diary is written on yellowed mulberry paper, and the corners are a little curly, and it is also stained with a lot of black ash, which shows that it is quite old.

"Grandma Ge Luo actually skipped the Zhaoye Palace and directly invited Xiang Yu to send support. It can be seen that the situation is getting more and more difficult, alas..."

The old man put down the book he had written when he was young, sat down at the table, and fell into dull thinking again, and the village outside the window gradually returned to its usual calm.

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After turning over the mountains in the mountains, the time gradually came to the afternoon, and the air also brought a little bit of coolness, blowing the girl's dress and hair.

After turning around dozens of peaks and canyons, a strange place in the distance finally appeared in Lorraine Hill's perception. She turned around, fell sideways into the canyon, and flew forward.

As it continued to fly downward, a tall and deep canyon gradually appeared in front of Lorraine Hill.

There are steep and towering mountain walls on both sides here, and its specific shape is like a groove left after a giant ax smashed to the ground and then picked up.

The mountain walls on both sides are not separated in a v-line, but are gradually approaching at the top in an a-shape. There is a sense of oppression that is about to collapse, which makes people frightened and terrified.

Walking in it, there are gusts of cold wind blowing from the front of the valley, making whistling sounds, and the canyon in the field of vision is getting darker and darker, as if it is heading towards the underworld.

Although Lorraine Hill is not very afraid of this, but walking in it can also feel how palpitating and panic it is to ordinary people.

Two little birds landed slowly from behind and landed on the stone beside the girl, making a chirping sound, which echoed far and wide in the valley.

"Okay, don't bark for now, just in case something bad happens..." Before the girl could finish speaking, there was a sound of rushing forward.

Soon a group of people in black robes rushed over. They barely exposed their skin, and they were all wrapped in black clothes. They even wore wooden masks under their hoods, shaped like ghosts.

After seeing this girl, the leader paused for a moment, raised his left hand, temporarily asked the people around him to stop, and then began to ask.

"Who are you and why are you here?" The voice was cold and seemed to be very guarded.

As a last resort, Lorraine Hill had to explain it again, and it took a lot of effort this time to finally convince the leader for the time being.

"You wait here first, and give us the token."

"Okay." The girl nodded helplessly. It seems that this place is very unfriendly to outsiders.

Afterwards, a man in black picked up the token and went back, and Lorraine Hill had no choice but to lean on the stone beside him, closing his eyes and resting his mind for the time being, ignoring the group of people who were staring at him.

About half an hour later, the person holding the token finally came back. He whispered a few words to the leader, and then the leader relaxed a little.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, please come with me."

After speaking, the group of people moved out of the way, and then the leader led the way for the girl, and the two walked towards the depths of the canyon.

There are many broken pebbles in the land under the feet, it is very barren, it does not look like a place where the land can be cultivated, and the sky above the head is also very small, like a thick line, spreading forward.The mountain walls on both sides are slightly weathered rocks with signs of peeling off, and their slanted angles cover most of the sky, making people worry that they will collapse at any time and bury the entire valley.

After walking a few miles inward, the mountain walls on both sides gradually closed, becoming narrower and narrower, and finally seemed to be close together, leaving only the line of sky in the middle.And leading to a line of sky in the distance is a long step.

Going up the nearly 45-degree ladder, after climbing up slowly, finally, a relatively flat open space appeared in front of the girl.And behind this open space is an 'elegant' shrine.

The reason for saying this is because this shrine has many damaged places, and the eaves and corners are a little peeled off, but even so, it can still be seen from its general shape that this shrine used to be elegant and beautiful.

"Master Miko is in the shrine, so I won't go in." His voice was a little heavy, with a bit of a soldier's air.

"Yeah." The girl nodded, beckoned the two birds to stop by the open space, and walked slowly inside by herself.

Coincidentally, it happened to be dusk at this time, and the canyon facing the shrine also happened to be in the west. The afterglow of the setting sun shone in through the long canyon, dyeing the area around the shrine a faint red.

A few indifferent calls came from the nearby woods, and a few crows stood on the top of the tree, watching the girl walking towards the inside of the shrine, her shadow stretched very long on the ground.

Boom, boom.

Even if it is as light as Lorraine Hill, stepping on the wooden boards of this shrine, there are still clear footsteps, and there is silence all around.

The shrine is very dark, with a dry and cool atmosphere.

After Lorraine Hill gradually adapted to the dim environment, he focused his gaze straight ahead.There sat an old man with her back to her, she was dressed in a black Chinese dress.

The reason why he is called an old man is because he has gray and haggard long hair behind him, which is not what a young man would look like.

"Welcome." The old man's deep and slow voice sounded in the room, and she bowed down again, then slowly stood up and turned around.

"You are the disciple sent by Xiang Yu."

"Yes."

The young girl looked at the old man in front of her. Her face was wrinkled and her skin was a little loose. From her brows, she could vaguely see her once beautiful appearance.If you let her return to the age of 20, it is estimated that she will also be a beautiful woman.

"My name is Ziqiu Geluo, and I am the priestess of this shrine." The clothes on this old man are indeed somewhat similar to those of the priestesses in the outside world, with elegance and luxury in the atmosphere, but her age is difficult. Reminiscent of those young and beautiful witches in the outside world.

"Hi, my name is Luo...Jialan." The girl said it smoothly for a while, but then quickly changed it.

"Luo Jialan, that's a good name." The old man nodded, his quiet appearance made Loren Hill hesitate for a moment and missed the opportunity to explain.

"You're still carrying your luggage, right? Come with me first, and I'll help you arrange a place to live."

After finishing speaking, the old man led Lorraine Hill towards the exit of the side door, from where he could see a small yard in the woods next to the shrine.

After seeing the girl come out, the two birds in the open space in front of the shrine also chirped and flew over.

"Is this your partner?" asked the old man.

"Yes." The girl nodded.

"Very well, then we have to arrange a place for them to live." The old man nodded approvingly.

With the girl and the two birds, the old man walked ahead unhurriedly. Although she looked very old on the outside, her footsteps were not trembling. Instead, she was calm and quiet, as if nothing could trouble her.

Pushing open the door of the courtyard, the corners of the door panel turned in the stone circular groove, making a slight creaking sound, and then the two walked into it.

The yard is not big, there is a small open space in the middle, and there is a well in the open space.

"This place is not as good as the outside world, so it's probably a bit shabby, I hope you can understand." The old man explained slowly, then took out the key and opened the door on the side to reveal the inside environment.

There is a table in the simple hall, and then to the side is a bedroom with a wooden bed.The wood looks very old and a bit dim, but the quilts and sheets on the bed are very new and seem to have been prepared recently.

"Usually you can live here." The old man briefly introduced the situation in the lower courtyard, the bedroom, the hall, and the kitchen beside it.

"We have very few trees here, and they are very precious. If you want to cook, I'm afraid you have to trouble yourself to make a fire with magic." The old man said apologetically.

"Well, it doesn't matter." The girl shook her head, it was not difficult for her.

"It's good that you can adapt." The old man looked at Lorraine Hill with relief, and then said.

"I'm probably tired from such a far away place. Why don't you rest for a night first, and I'll tell you about the surroundings tomorrow."

The girl thought for a moment, then nodded.The old man saw him, and after explaining something, he also slowly retreated.

Seeing that the courtyard became quiet, Lorraine Hill also breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, and returned to the house.

She first put down and saluted, then roughly checked the lower bedroom, and saw that there was nothing wrong, so she lay down on the bed, and at this time two birds also jumped up, huddled together, and squatted beside the girl.

"You are not cats, you are not soft at all." The girl stroked the two fat birds and looked up at the ceiling.Well, maybe it can't be called a ceiling, because the roof is just the eaves and the tiles, and the beams can be seen, with a little spider's web on it.

After coming to this area, the girl saw a lot of new things and filled her head with a lot of information. At this time, she also fell into a burst of analysis and thinking.

According to what I heard at the frontier inn, and the explanation given by the old man in that village during the day.It can be generally understood that this place should be isolated from the world and rare for outsiders.

The Ximu Mountains are located between Xiyou Continent and Mushan Continent. Compared with other areas of the Plantagenet Dynasty, this place is more like a foreign domain, that is, a place that is not under the jurisdiction and protection of the dynasty.

According to the description of the people in the inn and the old man, the mountain and river dragon veins here contain a heavy undead sequence magic power, which leads to the spontaneous generation of ghosts and undead in its area, so it is very dangerous, so it needs to be cleaned up frequently .

In addition, under the pollution of the magic power of the Necromancer Sequence, many lands are not suitable for planting crops, and they also cause certain damage and corrosion to people.

And the Youji people living here were nationals who specialized in the Necronomicon Sequence in ancient times, so they still retain the tradition of practicing the Necronomicon Sequence.One is that it can absorb the magic power of those overflowing undead sequences, and the other is that it can deal with wild ghosts with the same undead sequence.

However, due to the complicated historical reasons in the past, the residents here do not have a good relationship with the outside world, and it can be said that they hate each other.On the outer border, many people in the dynasty believed that it was driven by these noble clans that those ghosts and ghosts would harm people everywhere, so they should be suppressed vigorously.

As for this group of Youji people in the Ximu Mountains, judging from their performance, this group of people also has a strong resistance to the outside world, which shows that conflicts and contradictions have accumulated on weekdays.

However, due to historical reasons, few outsiders sympathized with this group of nobles. In addition, this place is inaccessible, and it has gradually become a corner forgotten by the dynasty.

"However, that Lord Shepherd of the state seems to be very hostile to this group of Youqi people." The girl recalled what she saw in the inn.

It's not just that the Black Leopard Knights often patrol the border, but also because they deliberately provoke those mixed-blood men in white.

According to Lorraine Hill's flight observations in the evening mountains in the past two days, these scorpion tribes are not strong, and they can even be said to be very weak. There are very few residents and villages, and they are far less prosperous than outside towns.They do not have the strength to threaten the outside world, and it is even difficult for them to survive in the mountains.

Logically speaking, this group of nobles should be in a very weak position, and there is absolutely no need to attach so much importance and suppress them.

Why deliberately provoke conflicts? Is there any benefit in making the people on the border hostile to the Youji clan?

The girl slowly analyzed as she recalled what she had seen these days.

Finally, she slowly closed her eyes and let go of these thoughts for now.

Let's look at it in a few days. The information we know so far is still too little, and no matter how much we think about it, we can't come up with any clues. It's better to stay for a while and then talk about it.As time passed, everything became clear.

Furthermore, I was only ordered to come here to assist the witches in the fight against ghosts and evil spirits, so there was no need to intervene in this chaotic situation.

Just complete the tasks step by step, let's get here today, it's time for a good night's sleep.

Thinking of this, the girl first lay down on the bed and took a nap.When it was dark, he woke up from his sleep.

I'm hungry, I can't sleep well if I don't eat.

Lorraine Hill got up from the bed, and the two birds were also awakened by the action.

"Do you want to eat too?" The girl petted the two excited birds, walked out of the room, and came to the yard.There are a few sparse starlights in the sky, and there are slight sounds of insects from all around.

She fetched a bucket of water, then came to the kitchen on the side, and after cleaning up briefly, she condensed a blue flame with magic power and sent it into the stove.

Looking at the fire stove with cut stone bricks and the large iron pot above it, the girl sat aside, as if she had returned to her hometown when she was a child, and it was the same at that time.

By the way, what's for dinner tonight?Only then did the girl realize that she hadn't asked the witch for some food, and her eyes drifted to the two birds beside her unconsciously.

It would be great if they were a little fatter, a thought suddenly came to my mind.

Seeing the ignorant appearance of the two little birds, the girl smiled for a while, and then stood up again.

It's better to go to that witch and ask, otherwise I will really be hungry tonight.At this time, the other party should not be asleep yet.

Lorraine Hill pushed open the door of the yard, and a loud sound of insects also entered her ears. She ignited a few cold flames formed by the magic power of the dead, surrounded her side, and then walked towards the shrine in the night.

The night was cold and dark as ink, but the sound of lamenting and singing could be faintly heard from the shrine in the distance.

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