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The water source is next to a clear spring, with a stone wall about five meters high, and it is very small, just a trickle.
Zhang Mu was sweating after fighting for three hours, so he approached and threw a fireball in, but found nothing.
He happily squatted down beside the spring, holding the staff between his thighs and stomach, and filled his hands with the cold spring water to blow it on his face.
After doing this for a few times, I felt the burning sensation in my body subside a lot.
"crystal?"
Noticing a shiny glitter under the water, he scooped it up and saw that it was a "Cas Town specialty" given to him as a gift by the grocery store owner when he was selling a quartz watch.
"So this is where he picked up the crystal he gave me."
Looking carefully, there are a lot of them at the bottom of the water. Zhang Mu can easily scoop up seven or eight of them.
It will be convenient to sell crystal gems to Song Lan in the future. Oh, Potter said he would leave for the royal capital in a few days, and it would be a long journey back then.
Thinking of this, he frantically reached the bottom of the water to grab fish, and only stopped after he had grabbed about a hundred of them.
Put everything into the inventory, get up and leave.
The road ahead was very peaceful. Zhang Mu's mental power occasionally sensed the presence of wild beasts, but he didn't want to waste time and chose to bypass them directly.
In addition, he was running when he crossed the gate of Kas Town. A bright moon had just risen in the clear sky, and the lamp posts on both sides of the road were dimly lit.
Standing there to catch his breath, Zhang Mu asked the townspeople passing by him where the mayor's house was.
After getting "the busiest street in the center of the town", he strode towards it.
The town is not big and the road is not far. It only takes ten minutes to run to the door.
This is a villa with a courtyard.
I looked around a few times, but didn't see any guards.
Thinking about the formation, Zhang Mu ran to the foot of the wall, and with his much stronger physique than before, he lightly jumped up, grabbed the top of the wall with both hands, and pulled hard until he could see into the courtyard.
There was no one in the courtyard.
"Bam—"
Suddenly, there was a sound of something heavy hitting the ground from the three-story wooden villa, followed by shouting and sounds of fighting.
Out of curiosity, Zhang Mu jumped into the yard. His mental power sensed that the noise came from the second floor, and he went straight into the living room through the half-open door.
The wooden stairs leading upstairs were right opposite the door. He groped his way up and reached the second floor.
"How dare you violate church rules and use force in this town!"
There was a rough voice coming from the room on the right. Zhang Mu landed silently on the ground and walked to the door, which was not closed tightly.
Through the crack in the door, you can see that there is a study inside. The desk is overturned on the ground, and broken wooden chair parts are scattered around. There are two groups of people confronting each other about three meters apart.
On the left were three men in white robes, about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, holding long swords that looked like they were made of ordinary iron.
On the right was a burly man with a full beard. He stood in front, holding a long sword in his hand. The sword was bright silver and had a hint of magical power.
He protected the woman behind him and roared at the three people standing in a triangular formation opposite him:
"As believers, you are disobeying God!"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor, everything we do is the oracle.
This divine will is greater than anything else in the world, even religious rules."
Zhang Mu's right eye, which was leaning against the crack in the door, clearly saw the mayor's expression filled with anger. After hearing these words, his expression almost instantly turned into a daze.
“No…no, impossible!”
"I believe in God!"
"Mr. Mayor." The believer standing in the front looked sad. "I feel sad about this. Perhaps your faith is not sincere enough."
As he said this, he raised his sword and stabbed at the mayor. The mayor did not resist, but just murmured "Impossible" in a daze.
Zhang Mu's face changed drastically as he saw the tip of the sword was about to pierce the mayor's chest.
This is the only clue about Rone's instigator. How can we find him if I kill you?
He raised his hand and condensed an ice cone that flew out and hit the sword accurately. The sword deviated from its course and missed the mayor's right shoulder.
"Who is it!" The leading cultist shouted and retreated back to his companions.
Pushing the door open, Zhang Mu swaggered between the two parties and said, "You guys can fight later. I have something to ask the mayor."
In order to prevent the believers from not understanding, he raised his staff slightly and a bright fireball appeared in front of him. The threat was self-evident.
“How dare you use magic in this town!
Heretic who disobeys God! You deserve to be burned to ashes by God's wrath!"
Zhang Mu was about to ask the mayor when he was stunned. He turned around unconsciously and asked: "What are the swords in your hands for?"
"We are acting on divine orders!"
Blinking, Zhang Mu felt a sense of mischief in his heart. He straightened his face and said solemnly, "I am also acting on the oracle."
The leading believer looked doubtful and asked: "Which bishop is listening to this oracle?"
Do you really believe this?
I originally thought that they were secretly doing evil things under the guise of gods, but it turns out that is not the case.
"We'll talk later."
Zhang Mu waved his staff lightly, and the fireball floated in front of the three believers. The scorching heat intimidated them, and then he turned to the mayor and said, "Mr. Mayor, I have some doubts and hope to get your help."
Without waiting for the mayor to reply, he briefly recounted what had happened in the forest.
The mayor was awakened by Zhang Mu's sudden appearance and his conversation with the believers.
It was just that his mind had experienced too many sudden changes in a short period of time, and he was still a little confused. But even so, after listening to Zhang Mu's story, he immediately understood:
"Charlie?!"
"That idiot Ronnie, he and Charlie are in the same boat!"
The mayor arranged for Rone to inform the foreign guests to flee Cass Town to avoid being assassinated by Charlie, but the foreign guests in front of him obviously did not receive the notice.
There is no doubt that Rone disobeyed his orders and colluded with Charlie to try to ambush the foreign guests, otherwise the origin of the scroll cannot be explained.
The mayor angrily explained the whole story to Zhang Mu.
He didn't care about the dead Rone and asked, "Who is Charlie?"
"Heretics! The Bishop is a person favored by God who can hear oracles. How dare you call the Bishop by his name!"
The conversation with the mayor was interrupted at a critical point. Zhang Mu frowned impatiently: "You are very devout in your faith, right?"
The staff was raised, the fireball shrank and disappeared, and three ice cones appeared instead, flying straight towards the three people, hitting their left eyes, very close, with the tips of the cones almost touching their eyeballs.
"Come on, repeat after me - Charlie is an idiot, and God is a fool."
The three of them were silent, and Zhang Mu teased, "If you don't recite, the ice cone will move, ok?"
He was serious and the ice cone pressing against his eyeball moved forward a little bit.
"Charlie is an idiot, and God is a fool!" The three believers felt a slight pain in their eyes and repeated in horror in unison.
Zhang Mu was delighted, and turned around and said to the mayor with a smile: "Mr. Mayor, look, this is the god."
Chapter 33 Charlie may not have a sweet dream tonight.
The mayor is a nice old man.
Zhang Mu thought to himself that he knew that the other party had no intention of harming him and even tipped him off under pressure.
Seeing the lifelessness in the mayor's eyes, he saw the despair of being judged as a disobedient person by the god he believed in.
I guess, even if the believers let him go, he would probably cut his own neck with the sword.
Zhang Mu felt that he was a good old man and should not lose his life for such an inexplicable reason.
But after listening to the so-called "oracle" conveyed only verbally by the believers, he gave up dodging the sword stabbing at his chest. It seems that his faith is extremely firm and not easy to break.
at least.
It is useless to just rely on empty talk like "God has never appeared, so gods may not exist in the world" and "God is a creature with great power and cannot grant you peace and prosperity. The only difference between you and God is that God is better at fighting."
Zhang Mu knew very well that in the continent of Sol where theocracy was supreme, there was only one way to help the mayor rekindle his hope of survival - let him see it with his own eyes.
Pointing at the three believers who were trying hard to hold back their trembling for fear of being blinded by the icicles, Zhang Mu explained: "They are believers who have officially joined the church.
Stay at the feet of the statue and pray sincerely every day.
No one would doubt their devotion to the gods, but faced with the fear of death, they did not hesitate to insult the gods.
As you can see, the gods did not appear to punish them."
The mayor looked a little dazed. It was obvious that Zhang Mu's disrespectful behavior and the scene before him had given him a great shock.
After a long time, he woke up a little, and although he was still depressed, he was better than before.
After all, this has been common sense for decades, and he needs time to think about it.
After taking a few deep breaths, the mayor said, "Guests from a foreign land..."
"Just call me Zhang Mu."
"Mr. Zhang Mu, thank you very much for saving me.
Besides, I want to know where Rone’s body is…” The mayor felt a little sad. After all, he had raised him since he was a child, and he wanted to collect Rone’s body if possible.
"Uh..." Zhang Mu understood what he meant and scratched his head. "Not long after Ronay's head was penetrated by the reflected magic, more than ten thunder wolves attacked me.
I fought with the wolves, getting farther and farther away. Halfway through, I noticed that four thunder wolves were chasing me about 20 minutes later.
so……"
The meaning was obvious. The bodies of Rone and the guards must have gone into the Thunder Wolf's stomach.
When the mayor heard this detail, he did not look sad, but horrified:
"The place where you met was on the edge of the Thunder Wolf activity area?!"
"Yes, and the wolves have been chasing me for three hours. If they continue to harass me, they will probably leave the forest."