Serious Witch's Travel Book

It was awkward for the next half an hour, and the two of them remained silent until the sun began to darken before Phaedra slowly stood up again.

"Let's go, I'm hungry..."

The nuns rubbed their bellies bitterly, the packages they brought out had already been lost in the escape.

Gnicia hurriedly said, "We can find some fruits to eat."

Along the way, she saw a lot of overripe and fallen berries, but they were in a hurry just now, and they didn't have the heart to pay attention to them.

"Forget it, what if it's poisonous. Even if it's not poisonous, it's still very dirty." Fei Dela didn't like to eat those things, she urged in a low voice: "It's not an option to go on like this, let's go quickly, we have to find a way , and then you can always find a village or something along the way. I don’t believe that those barbaric frontier lunatics dare to attack us in the German province with great fanfare. As long as I return to the monastery or Pine Candle Castle safely, I will definitely..."

Indignantly, she began to recount her hatred for the "Iron Hind" and the ways of revenge.

And Gnicia shook the small bottle a few times—since Phaedra prevented her from committing suicide, the water demon went back in again, and it is completely silent now, even if Gnicia puts her finger in it Also lifeless...

She was a little worried that this thing would die if it was dry for a long time. Without the company of this strong talker, she really felt a little lost.

At dusk, both of them felt a lot more relaxed.

They should have walked quite a distance. From the moment they started to rest, the two of them didn't hear the movement of pursuers. Naturally, the two girls who were already exhausted began to relax a little. With a minimum of vigilance, he walked through the woods in a straight line, trying to find the shortest way, while chatting in a low voice to pass the boring time.

"You're good at this, I mean, hiding?"

Gnicia was a little puzzled as to why Phaedra was so familiar with the forest. This girl claimed to be from a noble family. According to the general idea, she should be more reserved and introverted than ordinary children from ordinary families, but now she is groping in the forest. She climbed unambiguously, and although she still disliked the dirty and the unclean, the verbal things did not affect her actual actions at all.

It's just unbelievable - obviously she used to memorize things with ease and fear of heavy ones.

"I—hey, I was skinny when I was a kid, and I used to play hide-and-seek with... in the wheat fields..."

Speaking of these, Federa's face was unexpectedly not shy, but depressed.

She didn't seem very happy to say these things, so she quickly threw the words back to Gnicia: "...On the contrary, you, who are obviously a peasant boy, act like a lady, you Have you never been in a mountain before?"

"A few times."

"That's really, tsk tsk, your family must love you very much."

"Ah."

Gnicia lowered her head guiltyly, do the sages love her?At least I can't say that I hate her.But the sages...are they her family?

Phaedra suddenly pointed in a direction: "Look there."

They were on a sparsely wooded hill, across a dark sea of ​​trees. Although it was difficult to make out the location of Candlepine Castle, the tall mountains were still visible.

"That direction is the Alps."

It's a pity that she couldn't see any mountains at all, it was too far away—or Gnicia actually saw a few small hills, but that was the foothills where they came in the prison car, and it certainly couldn't be the location of Zurich ——She died several times on the snow mountain, can you not understand this?

"It's not there." Seeing Gnicia's strange eyes, Federra explained angrily, "You have to climb over the mountain, I remember that if you go south, you can see a big river, like a businessman. It is a detour along the river from the other side, and there is a small village by the lake on the top of the mountain. People used to call it Geneva, which means 'the source of water'..."

"Is it the road you mentioned this morning?"

"No, that's where it was said in the morning. Look."

Phaedra pointed to the other side, and there was also a ridge: "The mountain over there is on the east side. I saw it every day a while ago. If I cross that mountain, I want to walk...maybe a week or half a week. (Note 1) You will be in the Vosges Valley. As I said, you can go up the mountain along the Rhine River from the Vosges Valley, and Zurich is at the mouth of the river.”

"Gaul is a wonderful place, surrounded by mountains and forests. If you want to go to the outside world, it is right to follow the mountains and rivers and keep it safe. When I was in my hometown, if people pointed to long distances, they would tell travelers : 'It's on the other side of the mountain' - as if beyond the mountain, across the whole world."

—Is it a mountain?

Mountains are a wonderful thing.

Gnicia agrees with this statement.

Her first journey was to climb high snow-capped mountains, stand on a barren mountain covered with snowflakes and black gravel, and see the endless dark green ocean below the mountain.

The high mountain hinders the traveler's footsteps, but it also invisibly isolates the unknown malice from outside the region... After crossing the mountain, it is indeed like entering a new world.

That seemed to be a threshold.You have to go over to know the beauty and danger on the other side.

Gnicia didn't know what these thoughts meant to her, but she suddenly felt comfortable.

The world is so big.

Not just a little black house of wise men, not just a little sanctuary, not just a little castle by the river.

It took a long time to get there, and the journey that made her feel bored and dreaded seemed to suddenly become meaningful-she understood a little bit that the world is not a boring product of copying and pasting, as long as she crosses this Dao Threshold, she can see unknown things that she can't see standing here, she can see more people, more things...

Instead of constantly dying, there is only a short life of a small and semi-repetitive memory.

Maybe she really should... try to walk away.

"Thank you, but why are you telling me so much?"

Gnicia was a little puzzled. Sister Federa's attitude before was to take her to the "Holy Couch Mountain", but now she took the trouble to show herself the way...

"I just think that maybe we'll be overtaken. If the two of us get separated again, I'll try to take a long detour back to Candlepine Castle, or go straight to Paris if that doesn't work; you might as well go east, along the way." Take the road, go find your relatives... or try to find a way to go back to Pine Candles. To be honest, I don't like the monastery, but life is such a thing..."

Phaedra sighed and kicked away the broken stones under his feet.

……

It's half a month.

Fortunately, the woods ignited by that unexpected sky fire did not spread endlessly.

Sister Phaedra said that the fire was blocked by the river. Although it was so loud at noon that it was full of black smoke for half a day, it was extinguished in sevens and eighties at dusk, and the fire was barely visible. This means that they It should be possible to sleep without worrying about being burned to a roast in your dreams.

Very hungry, but even more tired, the two girls found a safe looking rocky cliff, cuddled each other and fell asleep.

After a whole day of fatigue, this should have been a comfortable sleep, but unfortunately, the prickly grass and the bugs crawling out from time to time made it difficult to enjoy the wild environment. They slept groggyly, but they were not very comfortable.

And, since we purposely describe this time, something must happen to it.

"—Gnicia? Gnicia! Wake up, let's run..."

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Tips.1: The "Empress" used a ten-day week. Here it is still a ten-day week. For the convenience of calculating weekends, related customs and religions will also be changed.

Well, nothing else.

Chapter 76

"Oh? Hmm—"

Gnicia, who was awakened from her sleep, was still wandering. She instinctively wanted to ask what happened, but her mouth was immediately covered.

The night is beautiful.

The dark clouds dissipated, the bright moon hung high, and the air was filled with the pleasant fragrance of plants and trees... If it wasn't for the cold weather that made her shiver, Gnicia would probably think it was a good night.

Sister Federa was beside her, and in front of the two of them was a pile of low bushes, which blocked most of Gnicia's vision, and at the same time isolated her from outside prying eyes.

"Hurry up, there are only five people left. The officer told us to find them all. If you want to see people, if you want to see people, if you want to see dead bodies!"

The voice came from not too far away from them.

"Hey, did he run away a long time ago? We searched for half the night, but there is no one there..."

"Shut up, don't let them hear you, don't talk too much."

"Go down, the higher the tree, the fewer trees, they shouldn't climb too high, right?"

——About five or six people, and the sound of dogs barking from time to time was also mixed in.

It's too close, as long as someone looks in the right direction, they must be able to spot their distance... Gnicia even saw the light coming through the branches and leaves of the bushes, and she could vaguely see a few people holding torches and spears , searching in the woods.

Obviously, it was to find them.

The hand covering her mouth was trembling slightly, and Fei Dela was also very nervous. The two of them were completely frozen in place, watching the group of people getting closer and closer.

"Wow woof, woof woof—"

When they got closer to them, the dog suddenly barked.Phaedra let go, and she crawled to the side in a jerk, and Gnicia also moved a little bit, but she quickly fell to the ground and did not dare to move anymore, because the light above her head had covered half the height of the tree , a little further down, it will hit her head.

The threat that was close at hand put an extremely heavy pressure on Gnicia. She seemed to feel that her heart was in her throat, she couldn't breathe, her whole body was numb, and her eyes were fixed on the direction of the light. The voice kept urging her to do something, but what could she do?She could just stay where she was.

She even heard a dog rustling the leaves of the bushes outside.

Fortunately, the dog-leader seemed to be bored, he tightened the rope, and muttered wearily: "Okay, don't look for your pheasant, come here... This is not over yet."

After a few reprimands, the dog was abruptly pulled away, and after three or two tired yawns, the team walked slowly past a few meters away from them.

The two girls were still nervous and did not dare to move. It was not until the voices of several soldiers chatting with each other could hardly be heard that Federa returned to the original place and gave Gnicia a hand: "Let's go."

They walked in the other direction tacitly one after the other, and after a while, Gnicia asked worriedly: "They caught someone."

"Yeah, someone must be unlucky."

"Then... if you get caught, will you... die?"

Nervously, Gnicia thought of the nun who was killed by the soldiers.

Her resentful, bewildered and struggling eyes sent a chill down Gnicia's back, and she almost felt as if a pair of those eyes were watching her in the dark at this moment.

"Oh, it's good to be dead."

Compared to Gnicia's overwhelmed, Sister Federa was calmer.

She stopped and told Gnicia without looking back, "If they get caught, I mean, they're about to get caught..."

Her words were interrupted, and she continued: "I may suggest that you commit suicide, but I also respect your opinion. It's best not to take chances."

"Oh……"

Gnicia hummed.

She felt that she was starting to admire the young nun a little.

In terms of appearance, Gnicia felt that "Miss Phaedra" should be about the same age as herself. She didn't ask about such things as age, but the height of the two was very close, and their physiques were almost slender. Physically, they are about the same age.

But Phaedra is much more mature than her - Gnicia is very envious of girls of the same age who can boldly and confidently make terrible decisions, even now she hesitates when considering whether to die, but What Phaedra said was very firm, presumably she would not have the slightest hesitation in doing it.

This kind of decisive companion makes Gnicia feel at ease, just like now, if Gnicia is alone, she will probably fall into a dilemma where she doesn't know where to go, but at this moment, she just needs to follow Just behind this brave and decisive little nun.

Thinking and making judgments for herself has always been a hassle for Gnicia, and she especially wishes someone could lead her along so she wouldn't have to think for herself.

The two girls were walking forward in the woods under the darkness of night. Phaedra found a direction and walked on without looking back, hoping to get out of the encirclement of the pursuers in this way, but in fact something was wrong. , no matter how far they walked, she always felt that there were always a few pursuers hovering around the two of them, making them dare not take large-scale actions at all, and they still couldn't get out of the search range.

However, as time went by, the interest of the pursuers became less and less. They dispersed from a group of five or six people to a group of two, hoping to find out the remaining mice as soon as possible.

"Stop... something is wrong."

After walking another half a mile, Phaedra stopped.

She had already changed two directions, but she was still being bitten, and now the soldiers were obviously more vigilant when they checked, and they no longer had the initial laziness.

"I suspect they have some way of tracking it."

Is it a dog?I'm afraid not, these dogs are not well tamed, and there are only one or two in total, so that the searchers who are alone will not be able to wander in the big circle of their activities all the time.

With doubts, Phaedra stopped wandering around.

Sure enough, the flames around them gathered more quickly.

"Wait here and don't make a fuss no matter what happens."

Gnicia huddled in a safe place. She saw Phaedra walking a little farther away, and on her right side, there was an imperial man holding a torch a few steps away. He was not wearing protective clothing. A, doesn't look like a soldier, but an ordinary civilian.He was walking listlessly along the road, but every now and then he would look down at a small rock in his hand, and then look around.

The figure of Sister Phaedra disappeared into concealment, and Gnicia was very curious about what she was going to do, but two seconds later, she suddenly stood up from behind the bushes, appearing behind the lone pursuer.

Gnicia was simply stunned by what happened next—she saw Sister Federa catching up with her in a few steps. Before the pursuers noticed, she took a sheathed dagger and stabbed her in the ground. behind him.

The face of the already numb pursuer suddenly changed into an expression of unbelievable shock. Almost at the same time, his hand holding the torch lost most of its strength and drooped unnaturally. The one who was taller than Sister Federa A group of young men opened their mouths slightly, but only let out a few muffled grunts mixed with panting sounds, and then their legs gave way, and they fell to their knees on the ground.

Gnicia stood up full of surprise, she saw Phaedra drew out the dagger, the knife was covered with blood, and her hands were more red.

However, this was not over yet, the pursuer was not dead, he used up his remaining strength and waved his hands twice, perhaps trying to fight back with a torch—but Sister Federa then covered his mouth, The blade of the dagger in his hand twisted and pressed against his neck.

The young man shook his body violently a few times, but he was firmly pressed down by the small girl. Federa gritted his teeth, and the dagger pierced his throat, making a deep cut. Worried, he then pressed the pursuer who had lost much life, and stabbed the side of his neck several times before letting go.

Gnicia witnessed the whole process, she froze on the spot, not knowing what to say, she could only watch in numbness as Federa lowered her head and groped from the corpse a few times, took away the stone and torch in his hand, and struggled He took his hand, trying to drag him into the bushes.

"Don't be in a daze, come and help." She urgently called Gnicia, who shuddered and hurried up to help, and the two of them dragged the dead young man into the room without being directly seen. the dark place.

Then, Fei Dela squatted down, held a torch and looked at the stones carried by the pursuers who searched the mountain, and said dejectedly: "This is troublesome, there is a mage here."

Although her heart was beating hard and her fear was heavy, Gnicia still leaned forward and looked at it. The nun was holding a stone that was just about the size of her palm. The light spots of the stars, they stayed on its surface like bugs, Phaedra held it and shook it a few times, the light spots on it blurred for a while, but they returned to their original state.

"This must be a witchcraft item..."

Apparently Phaedra couldn't figure out the stone either, so she raised her hand and threw the stone towards a place where no one was around, and then shook the torch vigorously a few times, and when the fire was about to extinguish, she threw it on the wet grass After rolling up a few times, it completely lost its light.