1047: Dead people, enter the city

The Black Night deepened.

After eating and drinking their fill, the villagers were one by one overcome with weariness, sleeping soundly on the ground.

Two bonfires crackled, and some leftover bones and wine were scattered on the ground.

In the center of everyone, the Primary Spirit Lamp was still flickering with light.

The spiritual lamp had burned halfway.

The time had now reached one or two in the morning.

"Village Chief, someone is missing!" Li Changkong, who was staring at the Primary Spirit Lamp, suddenly heard Li Man's somewhat frightened voice.

Hearing this, Li Changkong frowned: "Who is missing?"

"Li Santu's youngest Child, that Child kept fussing and demanding candied haw, I slapped him twice and knocked him out to sleep, and told Li Santu, as the Father, to watch over the Child, but I didn't expect that when I just went to count the people, I found that Child was gone!"

"That useless Li Santu is still sleeping soundly, he didn't even realize his Child ran off, serves him right for being dumped by his wife!"

Li Man's tone was very anxious, but he kept his voice low.

Upon discovering that someone had run off, he immediately came to report to Li Changkong.

After hearing all this, Li Changkong looked at The Black Night outside, and his heart also kept sinking.

Candied haw was another unique small business in their Li Village.

Every so often, when the hawthorn trees planted in the Village bore fruit, they would be picked by a few women in the Village and made into candied haw to sell for money.

Candied haw was relatively unpopular in Vog Country.

Therefore, there were always some candied haw that didn't sell out.

To avoid waste, the villagers would give them to the children in the Village to eat.

Li Santu's Child should have seen that there were leftover candied haw today and thought he would be given some tonight, but he didn't expect to wait, so he thought of getting them himself, which is why this situation occurred!

"Su Laosi."

Li Changkong kicked a strong Man who was sleeping soundly on the ground.

"Hmm, Village Chief?" The Man rubbed his eyes, opening them sleepily.

"Li Man and I are going out, you watch over things here, don't let anyone leave the range illuminated by the spiritual lamp, and don't let anyone get close to the spiritual lamp, understand?" Li Changkong said with a solemn voice to Su Laosi.

And these words made the other party slightly stunned.

Afterward, Su Laosi nodded: "I understand."

...

"Alas, it would be good if Su Liang were here, that kid is definitely more reliable than Su Laosi."

"When we go out into The Black Night to look for the Child, we not only have to worry about our own safety, but also about the safety of the sleeping people in the Village."

Li Man followed behind Li Changkong, his words filled with distress.

After complaining, Li Man looked at Li Changkong again: "Village Chief, why did Su Liang leave our Village in the end? Ever since he stayed in the house with you for a while back then, he left our Li Village."

"Everyone says he was appreciated by a Magician and even learned magic, is this true or false?"

Li Man's voice carried a sense of curiosity.

Li Changkong had no intention of answering this and instead continued with the current issue to be dealt with: "How long ago did that Child leave?"

"About one or two hours, I guess." Li Man said this, and then looked at the dark night sky ahead: "If there are monsters in The Black Night, I'm afraid that Child has already..."

"Normally speaking, our Li Village has been covered by the intermediate spirit lamp for hundreds of days, and the monsters outside with a certain degree of self-awareness will follow their usual habits and bypass our Li Village."

"The possibility of monsters entering the Village tonight is not high." Li Changkong comforted.

"Let's hope so." Li Man nodded slightly, the power belonging to a Knight gradually gathering within him.

"Waa!!"

As the two walked towards the area outside the spiritual lamp's range, a distant, tragic cry clearly reached their ears!

"It's that Child! He's crying!" The moment Li Man heard this sound, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he was about to stride forward and step out of the spiritual lamp's illuminated range.

However, the moment Li Man made this move, Li Changkong suddenly reached out and pulled him back.

"Village Chief?" Li Man's expression was anxious, with a hint of confusion.

"This sound is not right, calm down!" Li Changkong said in a low, serious voice.

"Waa!!"

The distant cry, after the two stopped, gradually became clearer.

"Waa, Father, Father I hurt so much, so much!!"

A clear cry, accompanied by indistinct words, came again from The Black Night outside the spiritual lamp's illuminated range.

And upon hearing the sound that was transmitted, Li Man's pupils contracted, and a surge of fear welled up in his eyes!

"Waa!" The crying continued, and the indistinct words also echoed.

These sounds, however, always remained outside the spiritual lamp's illuminated range.

If it were really that Child, he would have probably run back to them by now, but the reality was that the sound was always in The Black Night outside!

"Is it a Despair Whisper Demon!?" Li Man's face was already streaming with cold sweat.

In the Darkness ahead that was not covered by the spiritual lamp, there seemed to be a terrifying existence, quietly waiting for them to step out of the safe area!

"Let's go back, there's no need to go out anymore." Li Changkong took a final look at The Black Night, said it very directly, and turned around to return to the area where the villagers were gathered.

Li Man paused, and also followed back.

Despair Whisper Demon, this is a very terrifying type of monster among the monsters of The Black Night!

They like to record the desperate sounds that living people make just before they die under their sharp claws and fangs.

They are also good at emitting these desperate sounds of living people before they die, attracting others to step into the Darkness, and thus hunting!

If the guess was correct, that monster had already swallowed the Child who ran off last night alive, and when those sounds were just transmitted, it was clearly in the dark area just a few meters outside the spiritual lamp's range, watching Li Changkong and Li Man, who were about to step out of the spiritual lamp's illuminated range, with the eyes of a hunter!

...

The next day.

Just as the sky brightened, the spiritual lamp that everyone was gathered around also burned out its last trace of light.

"These Magicians who make spiritual lamps are really calculating, they won't even give an extra minute of lamp oil." Li Man looked at the extinguished spiritual lamp and couldn't help but complain.

After speaking, he strode towards Li Santu in the crowd.

Two big slaps directly woke him up!

The first ray of morning light, without warmth, spilled onto the ground.

Sugar House.

Li Changkong stood in front of the house, looking at a white bone skeleton with only attached flesh and blood remaining in front of him, sighing in his heart.

The skeleton was not large, the fresh bite marks on it looked shocking, and a few candied haw were scattered nearby, indicating that after the Child got food in the house, he encountered a monster as soon as he went out.

Despair Whisper Demon, in order to record a person's clearest desperate sound, generally eats them alive!

"Come, look, look what you've done?! You don't even watch your own Child, what use are you?!" Li Man threw the just-awakened Li Santu next to Li Changkong, pointing to the skeleton in front of the house.

The villagers behind came forward one after another.

Upon seeing this tragic situation, and realizing that a Child among them had died last night, they were all covered with expressions of sorrow.

"Child, my Child!" Li Santu finally realized the seriousness of the matter at this moment.

His voice was instantly covered with sobs.

...

"I'm going to the City to ask a priest to perform a service for that Child and also get a batch of intermediate spirit lamps."

Li Changkong exhaled a breath of stale air, and said to Li Man, who was the combat leader in the Village, and Li Bo, who was the prestige leader.

"Okay, you go, we will handle things here." Li Bo nodded.

Death, for people like them who were barely surviving in this world, was already a relatively normal thing.

Five or six years ago, when the Village had not yet fully established itself, people died in the hands of the monsters in The Black Night almost every night.

Most of the people in the Village had survived from that situation back then.

Riding the only horse in the Village, Li Changkong set off for the City early in the morning.

This horse in the Village was a wild horse.

After Li Changkong encountered it in the mountains back then, he caught it and brought it back to the Village, trained it for several years, and was only barely able to ride it for travel.

In most cases, the horse would still run around according to its nature.

There was nothing he could do, horses were a very precious resource in this world.

It was already very fortunate to have a wild horse to travel on.

But a wild horse was still just a wild horse, it could not become a truly well-trained warhorse that could serve as a Knight's weapon!

Once upon a time, Li Changkong also fantasized about having a warhorse, a Knight's greatsword, and a Knight's shield.

Warhorse, greatsword, shield.

Only a Knight equipped with these three major items was a true Knight!

But these three major items, even the cheapest set, cost 500 gold coins.

It was far beyond what their Li Village could even dream of.

Of course, there were also basic wooden shields and discarded greatswords.

These... were tailored for people like Li Changkong.

...

After riding the horse out of the Village, Li Changkong's hand gripping the reins was already white.

"Giddy up!"

Without saying a word, Li Changkong, with the suppressed thoughts in his heart, buried his head and rushed towards the City.

The City near Li Village was called Busen City, a medium-sized City with a population of two million.

When Li Changkong arrived here, he paid a silver coin to enter the City and left the wild horse outside the City.

Outsiders entering Busen City had to pay one silver coin every day, and if they rode a horse into the City, the fee doubled.

If there were no such requirement, people from the large and small villages around Busen City would probably rush in like mad!

After all, no one wanted to face the monsters in The Black Night!

Also because of this restriction, once they couldn't pay the money, they would be driven out, so the streets in the City were relatively clean, and there were no beggars at all.

spiritual lamp Specialty Store.

As soon as Li Changkong arrived here, he found the Boss lying on the sofa, counting the gold coins in his hand.

"Boss, I want to buy spiritual lamps." Li Changkong said to the other party.

Hearing this, the other party glanced at Li Changkong, casually yawned, and had no intention of moving.

And during the time he was being ignored, a White-Haired Old Man with blond hair squeezed into the empty seat next to Li Changkong: "Qiao Yi brother, give me thirty intermediate spirit lamps."

"Haha, isn't this Old Brother Dao Ti? Thirty intermediate spirit lamps? I've already prepared them for you! This batch of goods was personally refined by Magician Raine of the Renault Family in the City! Absolutely good to use!"

The Boss of the store, upon seeing the new customer, had a complete change in attitude.

Soon, a full thirty intermediate spirit lamps were packaged for the other party.

"Hmm." The White-Haired Old Man counted the number and nodded with satisfaction.

As he lifted these spiritual lamps with both hands, he couldn't help but glance at Li Changkong beside him, and the satisfaction on his face was instantly covered with darkness and repulsion: "I didn't expect to meet a cursed person when I came out to buy a spiritual lamp, this black color is really unlucky."