It is impossible for the girl to find the evil god in the textbook

The other party seemed to be observing them, but had no intention of getting closer.

"Is that dirty blood?"

Ella frowned and said:

"It's not like... what do we do now?"

The two looked at each other, and finally decided to follow.

The woman seemed to be waiting deliberately, she walked very slowly, and would stand still for a while from time to time.That's not like a completely ordinary woman, her eyesight in the night is not even much inferior to Ling's, and walking in such a cold forest itself consumes a lot of energy, which shouldn't be something a haggard middle-aged woman can easily afford of.

Walking along the rugged forest path, Ayla shortened the frequency of leaving marks.

After walking about two miles, a faint candle appeared flickering in the wind and snow.It was a stone and timber hut in a clearing.

The woman stood under the eaves of the wooden house, waited for a while, and walked in first after making sure that the two were not far from the wooden house.

Chapter 22 The cannibalistic woman

It was a house built of stones and black tree trunks common in the forest. It had no windows but a chimney for ventilation.

Dim oil lamps were hung under the eaves, and the glass cover was greasy and blackened by smoke, making it look unclean.

Overall, it was simple and ordinary, rather like a forest hut used by hunters to store debris.If this was just an ordinary forest, it would hardly attract anyone's attention. In this kind of weather, lost travelers would go in to avoid the snow without hesitation.

But whether it is the space that seems to be the land of Nod, the atmosphere in the forest, or the owner of the hut, there is an inexplicable weirdness.

Before Ella knocked on the door, the rotten black wooden door was pulled open. After the two squeezed into the house, the middle-aged woman looked outside and left and right, and then bolted the door tightly.

She looked like she was afraid of something outside the house, and her movements were cautious and quick.

The space inside the house is smaller than it looks from the outside, and the cramped space is crammed with a square dining table, stove and kitchen utensils, and a burning fireplace.

"Ah, saved."

Ling rubbed her palms that were red from the cold, and breathed warm air into them.

Ella took a bowl of hot tea and bowed politely.

"Thank you for your generosity."

The name of the middle-aged woman was Xia Delin. Compared with her haggard face with prominent cheekbones, Ella noticed that Xia Delin's body was quite thick.

Her attitude seemed to surprise Xia Delin,

"You should be an adult in Enoch City, why did you go to the wilderness at night like this?"

The corners of Ayla's mouth curled up unconsciously. In this sentence, she had confirmed that she and Ling had indeed come to the land of Nod where the city of Enoch was located, and not some unknown strange space.

On the contrary, the word wilderness made Ella feel a little concerned.Oceans, mountains covered with plants, this kind of terrain is difficult to describe as wilderness, this word should also include another meaning different from terrain.

"It's a little embarrassing to say...we got separated from the team we were traveling with."

Ella tentatively continued to follow the other party's words, because she knew too little information, she used rather ambiguous statements.

"It's snowing too much, and our companions should also go into the woods to avoid the snow. Have you seen them?"

Xia Delin's eyes narrowed slightly, and the wrinkles on her face squeezed together to form a rather ugly smile.

"No, I haven't seen anyone. It's not a good idea to go into the forest to avoid the snow... My lovely lady, the wilderness is different from the city. Is this the first time you have left Enoch?"

She lowered her voice.

"People who are familiar with the wilderness call this place the Forest of Silence. It is best not to speak loudly in this forest, because it will wake it up."

"Yelling like you guys is dangerous."

"it?"

Ling asked with a frown.

"what is that?"

The smile on the middle-aged woman's face became deeper,

"Who knows, some people say that the whole forest is alive, those black branches will twist behind the pedestrians and swallow the strangled person into the tree, and some people say that the monsters hide in the trees that resemble themselves In the shadows, they kill and eat travelers without leaving a bone."

"Don't be afraid, this house is safe. You must be hungry, eat something warm, and go to your companions tomorrow morning."

As he said that, Xia Delin filled a few twisted dry firewood into the stove at the bottom of the pot, and those black translucent resins gave off a fragrant smell under the roasting of the flame.

The woman served two bowls of not-so-good-looking broth. Large oily flowers floated on the surface of the broth, where a few chopped mushrooms and stewed lean meat could barely be discerned.And the few slices of bread on the plate showed a strange blue-gray color, mixed with some kind of plant leaves that hadn't been crushed.

Ella didn't know if such foods were common in Enoch, but they certainly didn't look appetizing.

And...it doesn't matter how it tastes, Ella touched the broth in the spoon with the tip of her tongue and frowned slightly.

Ling kicked her lightly under the table, and it seemed that the latter also noticed this problem.

Ella's attainment in magic medicine is already at the level of a master. She judged that there is some kind of powerful anesthetic substance in this bowl of broth. If most people drink a few spoonfuls, they will probably be unconscious until tomorrow morning.

In this case, it's better to follow the other party's wishes. Her alchemy body is immune to most toxins. Unless it is a special magic potion, it is not realistic for ordinary anesthetic substances to make her fall asleep.And Ling, who noticed this in advance, can also use magic to strengthen the body to counteract the effects of drugs.

After taking a few sips of the broth, Ella swayed and lay on the table, while Ling deliberately struggled a few times before falling under the chair.

After waiting patiently for 5 minutes, Xia Delin pushed the bed board away, lifted the two of them up easily with his thick hands and put them under his armpits, and walked into a dimly lit secret room.

This is why the space inside the house is smaller than it looks from the outside, and more of the hut is divided into a somewhat airy warehouse.

The wind and snow seeped in through the gaps in the warehouse, which made it much colder than the high place.They were thrown on the ground, and Ella couldn't help frowning on the cold and hard ground. There was a strange smell in the air here, like a frozen slaughterhouse.

After adapting to the dark environment, Ella could see clearly the scene of the warehouse on the ground floor of the hut.A large number of air-dried human corpses were hung on the upper part of the warehouse. They were salted like bacon, and some fresh parts were dripping with red liquid. The blood was frozen into scarlet pearls by the wind and snow before it hit the ground.

Xia Delin was grinding a two-foot-long broad bone cutter on a stone, and scoured the rust and blood stains on the desk with water.

She seemed to be chatting with someone, although there should have been no living things in this warehouse that could answer Xia Delin's words:

"You're right, there are people like that sometimes."

"Two smart brats, they are obviously outsiders and not residents of Enoch City. They can be killed, of course, we haven't eaten fresh meat for a long time."

The woman's voice became a little thicker, even like a man's voice or a beast's growl.

"Maybe we should wait a little longer. The brat said they have other companions, and that's enough to feed us all winter!"

"No I can't wait..."

The voice returned to Shadelin's original accent:

"I can't wait for a moment!"

Xia Delin tore off his shirt, exposing a thick body covered in scars.She reached out to reach the girl she had thrown on the ground, intending to pull her long silver hair and drag her onto the cutting board.

That bunch of silver hair is very beautiful. Maybe I can keep it and knit it into a warm scarf after eating the other person.

But the woman's hand was empty.She felt that her brain was not clear enough, maybe she could eat the slender short-haired girl first, although the lean meat seemed to be less tasty, but it should also be very chewy.

But when she raised her head, she found that the tall girl with short hair had also left her sight. Under such circumstances, no matter how unstable her mental state was, Xia Delin should have become sober.

At this time, a rusty dagger was pressed against her throat from behind.

"Patience is a good habit. If you are willing to say more, there is no need for us to have a conversation in this way so early."

Ling's voice didn't contain any warmth, it was as cold as ice floes on the coast outside the house.

"Now, Ms. Shadrin, throw away that heavy iron in your hand, and answer our questions."

"Will you let me go after that?"

The woman's tone became calm again.

"Do not."

Ling thought about it,

"We'll give you a treat."

Chapter 23 The Deer-headed Monster

A cold dagger pressed down on Xia Delin's throat, but she remained silent.

Ling's hands exerted a little force, and the edge of the dagger cut a shallow wound on the woman's neck, and the oozing blood quickly lost its temperature in the cold wind.

The heavy bone-cutting knife was thrown to the ground, making a heavy muffled sound.

"...what do you want to know."

Ella created a black spider web-like thin thread to wrap around Xia Delin's limbs. Even though the opponent's vitals were exposed to Ling's dagger, this crazy woman still made her instinctively feel the danger.

After making another layer of preparation, she asked,

"How did you know we were outsiders?"

"No one here knows the Forest of Silence, whether it's a wilderness or a noble in the city."

The woman smiled wryly,

"Miss, you are not noble, are you? Although they look almost identical, I can barely smell blood."

Ella thought that most of the nobles that Shadlin was talking about were filthy blood, and the shallow wound on her neck hadn't healed for a long time.Although somewhat unexpected, the crazy woman in front of me is indeed not dirty blood.

"How to get to Enoch from here."

Ling continued to ask, but this time she didn't get an answer, and the woman's laughter gradually became louder, even uncontrollable.

Xia Delin was trembling all over, and a weird laugh leaked from her throat, like the whistling north wind or the weird cry of an owl in the forest.

In the snowy forest late at night, a woman bound by spider webs kneels and laughs loudly in a morgue full of human corpses. This grotesque sight makes people feel creepy.

Ling kicked her from behind,

"I'm asking you something!"

But the touch under her feet made the girl feel a chill spreading from her feet to the top of her head. It was definitely not the touch of kicking a human being. She felt like she was kicked into rotten mud or swamp!

"Back off!"

She reminded Ella loudly, and wiped half of Xia Delin's neck while pulling back!

Only a small amount of red blood oozed out, and then the smelly black sticky substance immediately blocked the wound.It looked somewhat similar to the resin of twisted trees in the forest, or like spoiled and smelly blood.