I Like This Dream!

A few days ago, the messenger went with the order "not to harm the wizard" and came back with the feedback "not a single hair was found". An Xu thought about it and let Jian lead the team to stay there, fearing that he would take too long to trigger the condition and let the pharmacist run away.

She certainly didn't think that the pharmacist had left, not because she had found any clues, but because of pure unreasonable certainty: a hidden NPC had clues but couldn't find them. It must be because some conditions had not been met. Now that the plague event has been triggered and emergency measures have been completed, An Xu came to Honghe Village with confidence to pick up the pharmacist to join the team.

The scene in Honghe Village was different from what she thought.

All nearby traffic arteries were cut off, and a large area of ​​the bottom of the mountain Anxu climbed last time was burned and bald. It is said that this was to prevent the wizard from turning into a bird or beast and running away. The general brought half of the expanded border army. The dense army surrounded the small village with ten steps, one sentry and five steps and one post.

The last time I saw this scale was when Anxu and the new abbot arrived at the border, the border army gave them a powerful showdown. Later, Jane confessed that the elite team brought out for the show wore all the equipment that the entire border army could see. Nowadays, Thunder Castle is getting richer and richer by the day. The army's armors are brand new and their weapons are sharp. The new soldiers and veterans saw the God's favored ones in the sky, and each of them put out their best efforts. This directly caused the villagers who were summoned by them and surrounded them to split into two groups. Zhan Zhan, like a rabbit surrounded by hounds, is about to faint.

"You're here, Ann!" Jane showed an expression of asking for credit, "Although we can't find the wizard, not a single flea has escaped these days!"

An Xu looked at the scene in front of him speechlessly, suddenly feeling a subtle sense of déjà vu.

Jane had turned back, glanced at the trembling villagers, and threatened: "The God's Favored One has arrived. Do you have to force us to come out, wizard?"

An Xu remembered where the sense of déjà vu was.

Isn't this the way the Japanese soldiers surrounded the village in the anti-Japanese drama? ! Taijun is already here. If you don't hand over the Communist Party, will you start killing people? Who told you to keep people like this? ! We are teachers of justice! An Xu roared in his heart, feeling that he had seen the system information, which said [Hidden NPC's favor for you has dropped to disgust].

"Didn't I say, don't arrest the wizard, please stay and wait for me to come..." An Xu said weakly.

"Yes, I'm asking everyone to stay." Jane gave the villagers a toothy sneer and winked at An Xu.

...No, this sister, "please" without quotation marks, don't blink at me! It wasn't my idea! I feel like everyone’s hatred is being directed at me. How can I break it?

An Xu gave up. At this point, the misunderstanding caused by the lack of tone notes and emojis in the message is no longer able to be corrected, so it is better to focus on the present.

She turned around, pointed at the villagers gathered here, raised her voice and said, "Please don't be afraid, this is just a misunderstanding!"

...Why do the lines sound so villainous?

An Xu coughed to resolve (his) embarrassment and said straightforwardly: "As everyone knows, a plague has appeared in Thunder Castle. The epidemic area has been isolated, and many people think that the epidemic area and the living people inside should be kept together. Burn, but I didn’t! That’s useless!”

She originally wanted to use a method of first suppressing and then exaggerating, and then using a few words to popularize the science that purification is just superstition, and then turned to the reason why she wanted to find the pharmacist who was rumored to be a wizard. However, An Xu did not have time to say it. Several days of searches and siege of the village, the act of bringing everyone together without explanation, and the last straw finally pushed the villagers' nerves to the limit.

"The wizard must be burned to death!" A middle-aged man suddenly screamed, "I knew it! We shouldn't have let him live nearby! It's all the village chief's fault!"

The person next to him kicked him, and he lay on the ground and started crying hysterically. This collapsed person was like a hole in the dam. The crowd that had been silent just now became noisy, with all kinds of panicked excuses and whispers.

"I don't know, I don't know anything, it's none of my business..."

"We have no wizards here at all, Lord God's Favored One!"

"I shouldn't have..."

"Where is that little cub? The wizard's little cub! No one has seen the wizard except him!"

"You heartless spotted dog! If it weren't for his medicine..."

"That's just an ordinary widow. We don't know any wizards..."

"What an injustice!"

"Shut up!" Jane yelled, and the soldiers flashed their weapons, and the weapons forced everyone to stop abruptly. Only the middle-aged man who was almost crying was still crying loudly: "Now he is going to kill everyone! We are going to be burned to death in his place!"

Only the ellipsis, which is several kilometers long, can express Anxu's mood.

If the atmosphere just now was that of a cold spring, now it has entered a cold winter. Even An Xu himself suspected that there would be a massacre # next. She forced a friendly smile (making more villagers shrink back in horror) and opened her mouth to explain.

The almanac for this day must have written "It is not appropriate to speak today." Another voice interrupted An Xu.

"I think it's me you're looking for."

The crowd split into two with a roar, revealing a one-meter-wide path in the middle, with a person standing in the middle. No one noticed when that man appeared here. He was wearing a long cloak with black cloth covering his head to his feet. At first glance, he looked like a reverse saint.

The man in the cloak nodded slightly to the God's Favored One and the General at the other end of the path, and then Shi Shiran walked over, his footsteps clicking. An Xu noticed a pair of silver metal boots peeking out from the hem of the black fabric. She looked under the cloak curiously. When the other party came closer, she discovered that there was a silver mask under the cloak.

"Are you a wizard?" An Xu asked.

"It's me." The masked man said calmly, "Let's go."

"What?" An Xu was a little stunned, thinking that the recruitment conditions were too simple, right?

"Aren't you going to take me back to Thunder Castle?" The man wearing the mask glanced at An Xu - maybe at An Xu. Since the eyes of the mask were also made of silver gauze, he could not be seen clearly from the outside. Where exactly does the sight fall? An Xu could only tell that it was a man, about the same height as Jian, with a nice voice, but he always felt that he could hear a "you stupid human beings" attitude.

"That's right..."

"Then let's go." The masked man said impatiently.

"Okay!" An Xu replied quickly.

There’s nothing wrong with the conditions being simple! In short, recruit first, and gain favor later. She quickly became happy, told Jane to stop everyone, and then moved closer to the masked man to gain favor with him.

"What's your name?" she asked enthusiastically, trying to look between the silver threads to know what kind of conversation would increase her favorability. The masked man ignored her, and she moved closer. Suddenly, a young man rushed out from among the villagers.

The guards around Jane immediately restrained him. An Xu looked to the side and found that it was the young man who took her up the mountain before. The green-eyed boy gritted his teeth and glared at An Xu fiercely, as if he wanted to pounce on her and bite her. He opened his mouth to say something, but An Xu was still confused when the masked man suddenly walked over and kicked the young man.

It was a very hard kick. The boy was kicked so hard that he rolled on the ground and his head was cracked. The masked man came back as if nothing was wrong and said to An Xu, "Let's go."

What do you mean? An Xu was inexplicably nervous. Was this a sign that the NPC had a bad temper? If the favorability level cannot be increased, he might kick the boss like this? No, it doesn’t matter, I’ll just fly when the time comes! And once I return to Thunder Castle, my superb equipment and charisma will definitely clear up the misunderstanding quickly and easily increase my favorability. Hahaha... She laughed dryly and asked the newly recruited NPC with a bad temper to get on board.

The boy kept casting hateful glances behind them.

Then Anxu discovered that when going from Honghe Village to Thunder Castle, the first door into Thunder Castle was right in front of the burning (rat) torture rack.

The atmosphere was so dangerous that it turned into ice. An Xu swallowed and swore he heard the sneer under the mask.