Gold is Justice

Behind the curtain is a dry toilet covered with wooden boards. When it is convenient, the wooden boards are lifted, and then the sand is thrown in and then the wooden boards are covered.This indigenous toilet is often used when marching.

Whiskey was a little puzzled: "President Arrow, what exactly do you want to do? Anyway, we didn't dig this hole very deep, and it's impossible for the puppet to hide there?"

Airl shook his head and pointed to the wooden board: "Ke Ke, be careful, lift the board, and force the hook-toothed mouse out."

At the same time, he turned to Whiskey aside and said, "Generally speaking, small monsters like hook-toothed rats would want to run away immediately after seeing us humans. But the one just now ran into the distance in front of us. In the cesspit closer. I bet there must be something hidden in there. Coco, do it!"

Ke Ke nodded, she did not dare to be careless under Airl's instructions.The undead soldiers over there put on a fighting posture, stretched out their rainbow swords and slowly approached the wooden board.When the blade was only about half a meter away from the wooden board, the rainbow light sword suddenly thrust out to lift the wooden board, and at the same time inserted it inside!

The rainbow lightsaber with flame attributes immediately became a volcano in this small cesspit!It's just that in an instant, a mass of black hook-toothed rats rushed out of that small pothole, fleeing towards the east like a tide!

The number of hook-toothed rats that suddenly erupted like an army really shocked everyone!

Even Coco, who was casting magic from a long distance, couldn't help being frightened and jumped behind Airl, not daring to look.

Whiskey was stunned on the spot, until all the hook-toothed mice had almost run away, then he gritted his teeth and squeezed his fist, and said viciously: "What did those guys eat! So many hook-toothed mice are hiding in here ? And what do the sanitation workers in the camp do for food?!"

In contrast to Whiskey's anger, Arrow watched carefully the direction in which the hook-toothed rats were escaping.

Although a small group ran in different directions, most of the hookrats undoubtedly fled towards the east as if they had a fixed goal.

"go!"

Arrow didn't wait for the hook-toothed rats to finish running, and immediately led the team to chase eastward.

This leaves the whiskey a little scratchy again.At this moment, Polyester, who had just returned from looking for someone, heard Whiskey yelling, and immediately ran over and asked, "Why? Is your fiancée coming to see you?"

Seeing Dacron, Whiskey realized that all the members of the Mermaid Song Guild had already left.He just wanted to chase after him, but now it's completely dark, and it's completely dark in front of him, where are the shadows of Song of the Mermaid?

"Damn it! Where did they go?"

"Ah? Who? Who went where?"

"Song of the Mermaid! They just ran that way! Chasing those mice!"

"Over there?... Well, it's pitch black, I can't see anything. What's over there?"

"It's Shining Forest! I don't know how long they want to chase these mice so late."

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While Whiskey and Dacron didn't keep up, Mermaid Song didn't slow down.

Airl felt that his physical strength should have improved a lot after running around with the guild these days, right?But the most obvious ones should be the members of his own family. From the beginning, Brad only looked strong, and now he has become a powerful fighter with obvious muscle lines.Cream's figure is very streamlined, and his speed is already much faster than when they first met.

If you want to talk about it, you can only talk about Coco, this little girl is a magician, and she doesn't do any running at ordinary times, and the speed is a little slow for strength exercises.But the undead soldiers followed her closely, reaching out to hold her, so that she would not fall behind too much.

Not long after, Song of the Mermaid followed the hookrats to the edge of the Shining Forest.

Under the night, the entire Shining Forest looks more like a dark forest.The faint rays of light that could be seen during the day have all disappeared now, leaving only a thick, inextricable darkness.

squeak-

The hooktooths rushed into the forest without looking back, and it seemed that they had some kind of goal rather than escape.

Seeing this, Airl waved his hand: "Go, but be careful. Apart from being careful with slimes, there may be other problems. Anyone who finds any strange situation should report it immediately."

Everyone nodded, united together, and slowly walked into the Shining Forest.

The dense branches and leaves blocked all the light, and the world ahead became more and more unpredictable.

Airl pricked up his ears, trying to hear what the slimes might be making in his surroundings.At the same time, he was also careful whether there would be other things rushing out of these dark depths.

Under everyone's vigilance, some slimes did not pose any threat to their team.

After walking for half an hour...

"Look!"

Buffy flew high, suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed ahead, looking very anxious!

Brad quickly turned around and moved forward holding the shield.Soon, everyone saw some "abnormalities" in front of them.

There, there is light!

Moreover, it is not the light made of torches!

Seeing the sudden light, Airl immediately slowed down everyone's footsteps, advancing slowly with absolute vigilance.

Everyone held their breath, the closer they got, the more creepy sounds penetrated into everyone's ears!

Those were some painful breathing sounds, more like roars of being tortured!

One is suffering ahead, and of some terrible kind!

Slowly, slowly, these voices were finally no longer obscured by the forest, and passed clearly to Airl's ears.

And the real reason for that light finally appeared before everyone's eyes.

It was a sphere of light, suspended at the height of three people like a small sun, illuminating the area.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

The puppet was screaming in the middle of a slightly empty woodland.

He doesn't look like a normal person at all now, his shoulders and arms are melting like wax, some of the melted substance dripped on the ground, spreading out into a puddle of black grease.Because of this melting, his whole body looks very deformed, his feet are swollen due to pain, his body is bent, and his facial features will produce a little smell as long as he howls in pain.

And what's worse is...

Those hooked rats.

They seemed to have found some very strange delicacy, and rushed towards the puppet.Some hooked rats turned over and kicked their legs and fell dead immediately after taking a bite, but some hooked rats continued to charge up, biting or gnawing on the human fat that fell on the ground.

"let me help you!"

Seeing the miserable situation of Captain Muppet, Brad quickly put down his shield, wanting to come up to help disperse the hooked rats.

"Don't go there!"

But at this moment, a slightly old voice came from the side.

Arrow turned around, and saw a middle-aged man dressed as a priest, about 40 years old, holding a priest's staff, chanting light magic, and stopping Brad's recklessness.

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Arrow was a little surprised by what happened in front of him.

He reached out to stop Brad, looked at the puppet that was still screaming, and said, "How is he...?"

The expression of the middle-aged priest did not seem to indicate that the situation would improve. After drinking away the others, he began to concentrate on maintaining the physical condition of the puppet in front of him.

Although Airl didn't understand magic, he still felt a little warm about the gentle light on the tip of the priest's staff.

But even though the priest was working hard to maintain it, the hooked rats around him kept swarming up.Many hooked rats died, but a small number of hooked rats survived, and then ran into the deeper depths of the Shining Forest like crazy, disappearing.

"Brad, Cream, Coco, let's get rid of those hooked rats first."

Airl gave the order, then glanced over at the middle-aged priest over there.The pastor didn't speak, but turned his head and smiled slightly at Airl, and nodded slightly.Seeing this, Airl was finally sure that there was no problem with his decision, so he watched the guild members step forward to fight with peace of mind.

The ability of the hook-toothed mouse is not outstanding, and most of the time it only depends on the huge number.And now the main targets of these hook-toothed rats are all gathered on the puppet, and they seem to be completely unaware of human attacks, so killing them is not troublesome.Even so, the bodies piled up on the ground by these swarming hookrats still startled Airl a little.This went on for about an hour, and within the range of the light sphere, the corpses of those hooked rats had piled up into small mounds.

"It looks like the rat problem in our town can be reduced a lot this winter."

Cream smiled, and pulled the dagger out of a hooked rat.Due to the continuous slashing, his hands were already trembling.

But in the end, the number of hook-toothed mice gradually decreased.

Perhaps it was because the light on the puppet became stronger and stronger, and the hooked rats stopped rushing towards him as if fascinated.Even if he rushed up, after seeing Song of the Mermaid attacking him, he would turn the mouse's head as usual and flee in embarrassment.

"Phew... that's it."

As the pastor let out a breath slowly, the body of the puppet over there seemed to have lost some kind of support, fell to the ground with a thud, and remained motionless.

Arrow glanced at the priest again, then at the puppet over there.I have to say, the present Captain Muppet can no longer be called a... person, right?

His hands and feet have completely shriveled and shrunk, and his face is distorted and deformed. It looks even more terrifying than some abstract paintings.The left half of the face has only bones left, the ears on the right half of the face have melted away, the eyelids have been pulled down to near the mouth, and the eyeballs are about to fall out.

The pastor stepped forward with his staff in hand, and looked at General Muppet's current situation, with a sad look on his face.

"Although you revived him, I feel that keeping him alive in this way might bring him less pain than killing him directly."

Airl muttered something, and the pastor was slightly taken aback, but the wry smile on his face remained the same.He shook his head and said, "Are you going to serve God, and when I meet someone who is haunted by a curse, I stab him instead?"

After finishing speaking, the pastor squatted down, stretched out his hand and lightly pressed the "meat" of the puppet that was still breathing a little, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, but my ability is really limited. I can kill you before you die." Dispelling all the curses in your body is already my limit. Well... Next, I will find a way to take you to the church and see if the Archbishop can help you."

The current puppet doesn't know whether he can understand these words, or even whether he has the function of "hearing".

After finishing speaking, the pastor stood up and faced Airl, smiled, and said, "President of the Mermaid Song Guild, is Airl Garcia right? Earl Garp's chaplain, Holy Cake Bloody. After arriving at the camp I’ve always heard that our army’s cooperation partner this time is a president who doesn’t look very old, and I’ve always wanted to meet you.”

Arrow put his hands on his hips: "See me? What's the matter?"

The priest named Holy Cake laughed, tapped the staff in his hand on the ground slightly, and said, "It's nothing, I just want to ask you about someone. The mayor of Pelican Town may only know this town, but I think the president of the Adventurer’s Guild should be more knowledgeable.”

After a short pause, the pastor continued with a smile: "Excuse me, have you ever seen a girl with red hair who is about eighteen or nineteen years old? Not just this Pelican Town, but several nearby towns, and even Have you seen any other cities?"

While asking questions, the priest took off his priest's cloak and put it on the ground.At the same time, call for Brad to come over and help lift the Muppet captain to the cloak.

"A young woman with red hair?"

Arrow thought about it for a while, and indeed saw a few of them when he was in the capital, but he couldn't casually tell a strange uncle about this kind of thing.

"Excuse me, this pastor, what are you doing with this young red-haired woman? Um... is she fat or thin? Tall or short?"

Being asked such a question, the sanctuary was a bit boring. He thought about it, but finally shook his head and said with a smile, "Forget it, if you haven't seen it, then you haven't seen it. Let's go back to the camp."

Arrow smiled and said, "I don't mean anything in particular, I really haven't seen it. But why did the priest of the sanctuary appear in the Shining Forest so late? How did you find Captain Muppet faster than us."

Arrow deliberately spoke in this slightly critical tone, just to see how the pastor would react.

However, the sanctuary seemed very calm, and he smiled: "It's purely a coincidence. Although I am a priest, my affinity with light magic has not reached a very strong level. So if you want the best To treat patients well, you need to refine some medicines. And near Pelican Town, this Shining Forest has the most herbs."

While speaking, he tried to lift the cloak with the puppet.But after a little effort, the priest's face suddenly turned pale, he let go of his hand, and began to breathe heavily.

Afterwards, he looked at the people in the Mermaid Song Guild with some embarrassment, and finally set his sights on Airl: "That... I'm really sorry. I ran into him when I was collecting medicine in the afternoon. From the forest. So before I met you, I had been casting spells for more than six hours... I was really tired. I wonder if you can help me bring the puppet back to the camp?"

Six hours straight?Then plus an hour after the encounter, this priest cast healing spells continuously for seven hours?

Ai Luo was slightly surprised, and turned his head to look at Coco behind him.A magician casts spells continuously for seven hours. How can it be said that the affinity of light magic power is not good?If this is not good, then what is this little necromancer at home?

Airl reached out and touched the magic aerosol in the item pocket, um... there is no need to waste money.

Afterwards, he waved his hand, "Cream, Brad, help."

With the help of Song of the Mermaid, the pale face of the Holy Cake smiled again and nodded slightly.

Along the way, the sanctuary chatted with Airl all the way.He seems to be really interested in the customs of Pelican Town, but he doesn't seem to be very interested in the gold mines.