Use foreign lands to conquer the whole of Europe

"Witch..."

Suzanne murmured the term in a low voice, feeling a little resistant in her heart.

Although the two of them are the only non-religious people in this village, this term is taboo in Nuoersen Village. If outsiders know that these two girls are talking about this topic in private, they will definitely be directly sent to the church, and be punished by the priest. Trial together with the villagers.

"What's the matter, isn't your family not religious? It shouldn't matter, right?"

In the situation where there were only the two of them, Estherine was obviously a lot more courageous.She looked at the hesitant Susanna with some dissatisfaction, and persuaded: "You can only hear these stories from me, and no one outside dare to say them."

"Hmm..." Suzanne thought hard for a while, then she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Okay, then tell me! I'm also curious about what you want to say!"

Anyway, it's okay to chat in private, and she is indeed interested in such stories.

But when Suzanne replied, she suddenly felt a strange trance, as if she didn't know what she was doing just now, or where she was.

Susannah was slightly taken aback.This unexplained strange feeling made her quite confused, and she looked around subconsciously.

The afternoon sun is shining into the room through the open wooden windows.As her eyes swept over the brown wooden walls and familiar interior furnishings, she was sure that this was her familiar home, her familiar bedroom, and at this moment, she was chatting with her friends she had known since childhood...

"What's the matter, Susan?" Seeing that Susanna was in a daze, Estherine shook her hand in front of her.

She was worried that it was because of what she said that caused Susanna to be strange, so she whispered worriedly: "Why don't I tell a different story..."

Suzanne suddenly came back to her senses, looked at her friend in front of her, and smiled sheepishly: "It's okay, I was just distracted just now...Go on, I'm ready!"

Seeing that the other party had returned to normal, Etherine no longer worried, and instead showed that mysterious smile again.

She carefully closed the wooden window.In the small room where the light became somewhat dim, the two girls sat casually on the wooden floor, and then Estherine put the book she had been protecting in her arms on the open space beside her, and began to tell each other about the long preparations she had made. s story.

It was an era of wars, and there was a world-weary witch.

She is powerful and hates humans, and she happened to find a secluded and wide forest, so she settled down in the deepest part.

Under her influence, the concentration of magic power in the nearby area became extremely high, which made the forest soaked in magic power for a long time extremely active.

The dancing weeds, the thick thorns that can easily bind adults, the bloodthirsty monsters with red eyes, the fat red-spotted flowers that devour the living, and the weeping vines that catch all living things nearby... No matter what Be it ordinary people or well-trained soldiers, as long as they dare to step into this forest, it is impossible to come out alive.

Some people saw broken corpses that were thrown to the edge of the forest or hung directly on the trees. Others saw fragments of organs and blood stains all over the ground. Even the nearby land gradually turned dark red. , as if deliberately telling the world:

Humans are forbidden to enter this forest.

One time, a relatively complete body was thrown out of the forest, and it was immediately recognized by those who were looking for the missing person around. It was the son of a certain family.

But just when his family members rushed to the forest after receiving the notice to collect the body of the deceased, the nearby trees suddenly moved, and countless vines protruded from the leaves and the depths of the dense forest at the same time. Those who had not yet entered the forest were quickly dragged in.

Accompanied by several tragic wailing and painful screams, the rustling sounds from the forest gradually subsided.The son lying on the edge of the forest, plus these people who wanted to collect his body, the family has never been alive again.

Such horrific and inhumane acts of arrogance quickly spread the notoriety of this forest.Here's what people call it:

Forest of Witches.

Such despicable behavior naturally aroused strong dissatisfaction among nearby residents.But they can't do anything about this living forest, they can only hold anger and fear towards it, and warn people around them not to go to that forest.

But horror always breeds curiosity.When the forest became notorious, rumors of unknown origin gradually spread nearby:

"The witch who lives in the forest is an extremely beautiful woman. As long as she can come to her alive, she will fall in love with you and spend the rest of her life with you. She will even make you immortal like her."

This kind of rumor sounds funny and funny.But who knew that there really was a witch living in the forest?Or is it all just a mistake?

There is no way to examine the truth.But in any case, this bizarre half-truth and half-false rumor soon spread in the nearby villages and taverns.

The first person who was attracted by it and put it into practice was the eldest son of a nearby noble family.

At that time, the young man was only 18 years old, and he was young and energetic.After hearing the rumor vividly uttered by the visitor at the wine table, he couldn't restrain his curiosity. He borrowed the reason of going out to play and took a few followers who could fight. After asking the nearby residents for directions, he came to the forest. .

Not surprisingly, this group of people lost their news and never returned to their relatives.

The villager who was asked for directions became the last witness.He came to the nobleman's castle on foot, reported the matter to him, and emphasized that he had fulfilled his duty of warning, hoping that the nobleman could give him some reward.

However, at the moment when the nobleman was suspected of losing his beloved son, this behavior was tantamount to courting death.

He questioned the man on the spot why he wanted to show his son the way, and then beheaded the greedy and stupid villager by the sword without any explanation, and then sent his troops to the Witch's Forest to find the missing young master.

This is an army of fifty well-trained soldiers.They came on horseback in great numbers, and some of them were filled with hatred, seeking to avenge their relatives and friends who had disappeared in the forest.

But unexpectedly, they entered the forest extremely smoothly.

There is no legendary man-eating monster tree, no scary monsters, and even no corpses or bloodstains.They rode their horses in this way, walking cautiously and slowly through the intricate forest until they saw the large lake in the middle of the forest and the wooden house floating on the water in the very center.

There are no bridges, no roads near the huts.It just stays so quietly on the surface of the lake without waves, and this kind of vision is enough to show that the people who live here are not human beings.

However, these soldiers and their leaders did not back down.If they return without success, they will definitely be severely punished by the noble lord, and even a large amount of salary will be deducted, thus causing them and their families to suffer from hunger and cold.

So the group stopped nearby for a while, discussing how to get to the wooden house on the water.

But at this moment, the sound of water came from the lake.

Starting from the wooden house, a wooden plank road slowly cuts across the lake.It extended straight in the direction they were, all the way to the solid soil by the lake, and then stayed there motionless, as if waiting for a visitor.

The road problem was solved in such a weird way, and these soldiers were not happy at all.But under the orders of the team leader, they still reluctantly set foot on the plank road and walked carefully to the wooden house.

The leader of the team is a responsible person.He entered the house first and told the soldiers behind him to be careful.

The interior furnishings are extremely simple, only a fireplace by the wall, wooden tables and chairs, a small bed and two windows.Logically speaking, this single-storey cabin should not be able to accommodate so many people at the same time, so the leader let only ten soldiers follow him into the house, and the rest waited outside.

But for some reason, the soldiers behind them suddenly began to disobey the command.They entered the wooden house one by one, so that the first ten people who came in could only be squeezed into the innermost place, and shouted out in confusion and anger:

"Don't come in again, what the hell are you doing!" "There is no room for so many people here! Hurry up and get out!"

No one listens to them.

Those soldiers were still walking in, but for some reason, their strength was astonishing. Even if ten of them pushed hard to the outside together, they could only be pushed back to the corner by the soldiers who kept walking in.

And the weirdest thing was that those who came in from behind all had the same sluggish expression, their pupils were slack and lifeless, and there was no trace of life.

Under such a strange development, even experienced team leaders are helpless.He could only stand on wooden tables, chairs and beds with those soldiers who looked normal, counting the number of people in the room, hoping that this "farce" would end as soon as possible.

Soon, the number of people in the house reached 50 people.But the strange thing is that even though it accommodates so many heavily armed soldiers, the room still maintains the previous crowded feeling, and there is not much change, and there is even some leeway...

It's like this wooden house has grown bigger without knowing it.

A series of abnormalities made the leader feel alarmed, but he could only helplessly look at the black crowd below.

Obviously, what they should consider now is not to find someone, but how to get out of the predicament - they can't walk out of the house on the heads of these people, right?

But at this moment, a soldier standing on the bed made a trembling voice with a terrified expression:

"Why... why is there someone who looks like me there?"

As far as he could see, the soldier could clearly see that the person standing not far from him and looking back at him had the same face and attire as himself.

Accompanied by his words, panic quickly spread among the few remaining normal people.Soon, they all discovered to their horror: not only the soldier, but they also saw people who looked the same as them, and even more than one.

And these people all turned their heads to look at them without exception, and what's more, they twisted their necks in a full circle, staring straight at these people with their own strange postures and empty pupils that humans can't do. People with the same face, and maintaining this strange posture, slowly squeezed out of the crowd and approached them.

This sight is beyond human comprehension.

Soon the first soldier drew out his sword and slashed at the inhuman creature that had come before him with all his strength.The sharp blade smoothly sliced ​​through the body that was exactly the same as his, but there was no bloody scene as imagined——

What flowed out from the wound was a wriggling black liquid.

They flowed/crawled down the body, as if they had locked on to the target, and slowly crawled towards the soldier who made the move.

The man screamed and retreated, but there was no way to retreat; he wanted to hide behind his companion, but the black liquid bypassed his companion and rushed straight at him.

The scream turned into a howl of pain.The rest of the people watched in horror as the soldier shook his body wildly, but the liquid climbed up his body extremely tenaciously, and penetrated into the weak parts of his armor, and then there were bursts of sizzling sounds With a loud voice, white smoke began to rise from his body.

The team leader was the first to react.Under the strong order of the team leader, the soldiers standing on the bed ignored the fear and forcibly held the man who was struggling and screaming in pain, and took off the armor on him, only then could he see the armor. The scene below -

The black liquid had already corroded his inner shirt, and through the tattered cloth, they could see that there was black liquid all over the man's body, and this liquid was rapidly corroding his body, and had eaten several horrible man's hole.

No blood flowed out - when the flesh and blood were being eaten, the mixed liquid mixed with blood and plasma was also completely swallowed by the wriggling black liquid at the same time, not a single drop was left.

Seeing this situation, the remaining soldiers did not dare to do anything at will.They watched their companions being eaten up bit by bit while they were conscious, watched their struggling cries and struggles become weaker and weaker, and finally stayed forever in the expressions of "unbelievable" and "despair", Nothing more.

At the same time, several "persons" with the same faces as other soldiers squeezed through the crowd and came to them.

The remaining soldiers have long been in a mess.In the crowded wooden house, they could neither chop these "people whose wounds would spray black water", nor split those inexplicably hard wooden walls, so they could only punch and kick them.

Yet this primitive approach does not stop the inhuman.With a numb expression, as if they couldn't feel the pain, they kept approaching the target that was the same as their own, and then with greater strength than the original owner, they grabbed the other party forcibly and bit them with their mouths open.

Unable to escape the wooden house, crowded crowd, creatures that look like humans but not human... Countless screams and wailing came from the wooden house, and even spread out of the forest just like that.

These miserable voices are also mixed with all kinds of weird and indescribable sounds, some are like the sound of sap, some are like the sound of tearing meat, and there is even the sound of chewing... and the loudest, It should be the laughter of an extremely rampant and mysterious woman.

This made the villagers who watched the army enter from afar panic.They screamed and fled back to their own residences. Some even dared not go out for three days, and could only mutter insanely, "Don't come here, don't come here."

There was a full army of 50 people, and no one survived.And after losing his beloved son and his army, the nobleman's castle was also destroyed by his rival who heard the news, and the bodies of the whole family were hung at the gate of the castle to show the world.

Since then, that forest has become taboo.No one dared to mention the legend about that forest again, and no one dared to approach it.

Thank you Xiaowumo for the monthly ticket~
Although I can't add updates at the moment, this chapter is also a 4000-word chapter, which is equivalent to two chapters straight away. Maybe it can be considered as an addition in disguise?

Say a little digression.

This month is my third month of writing. After it was put on the shelves, I finally got a little bit of royalties.

The manuscript fee for May is 9.48!Breaking the record!
Having fun in bitterness belongs to hhh
For just nine dollars, I would like to thank my few friends for their great help...

I don't know if I can raise my manuscript fee this year, because it takes 200 to withdraw cash (quietly).

This should be regarded as generating electricity for love, right? / look at the sky