Lord Highlander

  Chapter 537 526. Night Detective

Selena's new home is on the westernmost side of the second townhouse in the village. The simple lines make the building look square. Each townhouse accommodates six villagers. The small courtyards surrounded by wooden fences have not been completely cleared out yet, and some building materials have been piled up indiscriminately.

The main body of the small building is poured with limestone and volcanic ash cement. The roof is paved with a herringbone frame, and a thick layer of oak board is laid on the frame. The oak board is covered with a layer of gray tiles. The terrace, attic, The wooden doors and windows all exude a faint fresh smell.

The small townhouses are divided into upper and lower floors, with a small attic and a terrace on the top floor. In order to save time, the bricklayers who built the small townhouses removed unnecessary decorations as much as possible when building these small townhouses. Therefore, From a distance, the three small buildings appear monotonous, unified and lack aesthetic feeling.

   But this is nothing to the villagers of Wall Village.

  They are about to get out of the thatched hut and live in a solid stone house made of cement. From then on, they don’t need to worry about the roof collapsing when the snowstorm hits, and they don’t have to worry about the heavy rain outside the house when the storm hits and the light rain inside the house.

  They were full of anticipation for their new home, with joy on their faces.

  Sometimes when I eat a big pot of rice with a pot in the village square, I will laugh out loud unconsciously.

  When the four-wheeled carriage passed the wild lake ten kilometers downstream of the river bend, they would run to the lake to pick up some beautiful pebbles,

  After returning to the village, these cobblestones will be paved on the sidewalks of the small townhouses before it is completely dark, and the gaps between the cobblestones will be filled with pozzolan cement, and then the road surface will be washed with water until the smooth and round pebbles reveal their most beautiful side.

The buildings in Hailansa City usually support tall and smooth marble pillars around the perimeter of the house. The villagers imitated the style of the nobles in the city and built a row of cement stone pillars around the small townhouses to form a circle. Outside balcony.

  The aristocrats like to use hollowed-out lady stone fences on the terraces, and the villagers also build solid oak railings on the terraces and balconies.

Selena held the corner of the long skirt with one hand, and the soft and light long skirt outlined her two slender and straight thighs on the other side, and stepped up the outer stairs. Signa shook off Selena's hand and rushed forward. Go to the stairs, stand on the slow platform and shout to Selena: "Selena, I want to play in the attic for a while..."

It seems that the attic of every house can become a paradise for children. After leaving the thatched hut with only one room, Signa finally has a room of her own. The wooden window was pushed open, and the hands rested on the window sill, looking at the setting sun that was about to set.

  Suldak saw that the rock cracks on the cement stone wall were very smooth, and the construction level of the villagers seemed to be improving rapidly.

  With a faint smile on her face, Dai Lina lowered her head and pushed open the door to let Suldak into the living room.

The walls of the brand-new living room are painted with white ash, and the patterned blanket sent by Suerdak is hung opposite the fireplace. A very old very old wooden table.

   Behind the living room is a small dining room, washroom and kitchen, and the two bedrooms are upstairs.

  Selena went into the kitchen to boil water, and Suldak was leaning against the door frame beside him, with his hands folded in front of his chest, silently watching Selena.

  When she bent down, the soft long skirt highlighted her round buttocks. Recently, she has become a little plump. Although her waist is still slender, she has a little more charm of a young woman.

  She tied her long, smooth golden hair into a ponytail with a handkerchief behind her head, and looked at the spacious kitchen with a satisfied face. The kitchen alone was half the size of the original thatched cottage, and all the cooking utensils in the kitchen were brand new.

In the past year, thanks to the man in front of her, her life has undergone earth-shaking changes. Even the matter of preaching the teachings of the Goddess of Darkness has improved a lot. Those kobold slaves still have a little IQ. At least he can understand the stories about the blessings of the dark goddess that Selina told.

The blue flames in the stove licked the bottom of the kettle, Selena turned around and walked in front of Suldak, with a pretty face like a ripe apple, she reached out to help Suldak untie the magic pattern armor of the 'Earth Shield' , hanging on a wooden stand beside it.

  Dinner is very simple, Selena prepared a plate of vegetable salad, chestnut noodle pancakes, and some broth.

  Signa hurriedly finished her share, and borrowed Cyrus from Suldak. Hickok Black Mage's Magic Notes.

  Suldak felt that the little girl still had some magical talents. If she could awaken the magic pool and become a magician at the age of 12, their life as a mother and daughter would be better in the future.

   Seeing Signa running upstairs in two or three steps, Selena didn't forget to tell her not to watch it too late...

  …

Wall Village at night is very quiet. Most of the villagers will go to the square in the village to eat a big pot of rice. After they are full, they go home in twos and threes. There are basically no entertainment activities in the small mountain village at night. After the villagers go home to wash and wash, Usually go to bed very early.

   Soon, the whole village will be silent in the night.

  In Wall Village, kerosene lamps and candles are luxury items, so very few people are willing to spend money to light them.

Ludwig sat outside the tent of the adventure group, watching the crooked moon slowly climb up from the top of the dead tree, he exhaled softly, and even the sound of breathing came from all around him. The members of the adventure group who were on duty at night opposite him were all dozing off.

He patrolled around quietly and found that everyone was fast asleep, so he quietly got out of the campsite of the adventure group, passed the big dead tree at the entrance of the village, and groped along a road in the village towards the village. The earth dog heard the movement, let out a few barks, and rushed out of the darkness, rushing towards Ludwig.

He had been prepared for a long time, took out a pack of broken bones without oil and water from his arms, and threw them out. The attention of the dogs was immediately attracted. Although the bones were not oily, the faint fragrance still attracted a few dogs. The dog's full attention.

  Ludwig was about to pass by these dogs when he saw footsteps from a construction site not far away.

It seems that someone in the village heard the movement of the dogs, worried that some people from other villages would go to the construction site to steal construction materials, especially those steel bars, each worth at least two silver coins. A villager crawled from a shack wearing clothes After coming out, he walked around the construction site while muttering, and then touched the construction site next to him.

Just as Ludwig was about to take advantage of the village people on duty to leave, he passed the construction site when he saw another village woman emerge from the shack. She smoothed her long skirt as she walked, and Ludwig hurried Hide in the shadows around the corner.

  Looking at the direction the village woman was walking, he was a little speechless, so he could only choose to bypass the unfinished construction site.

   It’s just that except for the three small townhouses that have been built, there are such construction sites full of building materials everywhere in the village. If you want to bypass them all, you can only go up along the edge of the river.

   Fortunately, there are many wheat fields all over the stream, and the wheat in the fields has almost reached Ludwig's thigh. These wheats have already begun to ear.

  The flowing stream covered the sound of his footsteps, Ludwig became a little more courageous, and he walked up the stalks of the wheat field.

  When he entered the village during the day, he had already explored the road, knowing that he would go up along the stream until he reached the construction site of the reservoir upstream.

   Before you get there, you have to make a detour in advance.

   Otherwise, if the craftsmen in the construction site find out where they are, they will be unable to run away even if they want to.

  Ludwig was thinking about it in his mind, when he heard a sound of 'baa baa baa' coming from the front, which startled him a lot.

During the daytime, he didn't see that there was a flock of sheep here. With the help of the faint moonlight, there were indeed some gazelles locked up in the wooden fence in front. Hearing the calls of those gazelles, the number should be less few.

  Ludwig wanted to avoid the sheepfold, but he didn't want to cross the river to the other side, so he wanted to get closer to the sheepfold to see if there was a way to go around.

  He got out of the wheat field and saw that there was indeed a sheepfold in front of him. He leaned against the low wall and peeped there, wondering if there were any villagers guarding there...

A huge head suddenly appeared on the other side of the low wall. He stared at Ludwig unblinkingly with his bull's eyes like copper bells. The smell of garlic and the bald head almost made Ludwig scream.

Gullitum was obviously also taken aback by Ludwig. He just lay down and fell asleep by the low wall outside the sheep pen. When he opened his eyes, he saw someone poking his head out of the wall and staring at him face to face. look at yourself.

  Under the night, the thin man in front of him was dressed in tattered linen clothes, and he didn't even have a little flesh on his body. Gullitum gave him a disgusted look.

  No one in the village would dare to approach him, let alone initiate a conversation with him. Everyone was a little afraid of him.

   Even when the women in the village are coaxing their children, they will threaten those bear children: Be honest, if you don’t obey me again, I will let you go to herd sheep with Gulitum...

  The ogre Gullitum robbed the only job of the older children in the village, so in the eyes of the children, big and small, he was a heinous devil.

  He is an ogre who is willing to be reasonable. He likes to chat with people when he is bored. He likes the food in the ogre tribe...

  It's a pity that no one in the village is willing to reason with him, and no child likes to listen to his stories, such as the carrot and finger story.

   "Who are you? Are you not from the village?"

   Gulitum looked at the stranger in front of him vigilantly, and asked.

   "Ludwig..."

  Ludwig said without thinking, facing the ogre in front of him, he worried that if he hesitated for a moment, he would be eaten by the ogre.

   Gulitum believed that the outsider in front of him was telling the truth, and the reason for judging the authenticity was that this kind of answer without thinking was basically the truth.

   "It's so late, why did you come here? You want to steal a sheep?" the ogre Gullitum continued to ask.

  Ludwig felt that the ogre in front of him brought him more pressure, he quickly waved his hands and shook his head and said:

"NO, I have not!"

   Hearing Ludwig say this, Gullitum breathed a sigh of relief... Since he didn't steal the sheep, it's no big deal!

  He thinks that Ludwig should be a bricklayer from another village on the construction site of the cistern. Seeing that his palms and jaws are covered with calluses, although his body is thin and thin, his eyes are full of energy—very like a master craftsman!

At this moment, Gulitum remembered that his stomach was rumbling. The multigrain porridge he drank at night was not very hungry. After sleeping for a short while, his stomach felt empty. He kind of missed those salamander broth. The demon wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, waved his hand impatiently, and said to Ludwig:

"Okay, get out of here quickly, don't run around in the middle of the night, and don't come here to wake me up, otherwise my stomach will be very hungry, and it's not easy to sleep until dawn, okay, hurry up Go back to the construction site of the cistern!"

  Ludwig was about to return the same way, but he stopped immediately when he heard what the ogre said.

   "???"

  He has question marks all over his head...

  I wanted to ask Gulitum, did I make a mistake...

  But then he immediately realized that the ogre Gullitum was thinking of him as a bricklayer from another village at the construction site of the cistern, and he replied in a hurry:

   "Oh, ok, I'll be leaving right away..."

  Ludwig walked forward without thinking. He had no idea that he was actually under the watchful eye of an ogre, and easily passed the sheepfold and walked into the upper reaches of the river.

  The tents on the construction site of the reservoir were almost connected into one large area. There were still a few torches lit around the construction site, and some villagers on duty were standing on high piles of materials.

  Although he successfully entered the upper reaches of Wall Village, he did not get carried away with it.

Seeing the only mansion in the village that was still lit from a distance, Ludwig immediately thought that the Baron Suldak was probably at home, and those followers should be with him , I heard that there is a very powerful archer beside him, his eyes are not restricted by night and day, it was that archer who shot and killed more than 20 companions...

  Thinking of this, Ludwig felt chills on his back. He decided not to take any risks, and went directly to the direction of the security station in his memory.

  A trace of dark clouds completely covered the crooked moon, and the small mountain village fell into absolute darkness.

Ludwig walked along the flat open space where the fourth-level reservoir was leveled out, and walked towards the Sheriff's Office in Wall Village. He wanted to take the risk of going there. After all, Magician Golden died here, and he should have died in Wall Some clues were left in the village. According to the information obtained from the magician of the Law Enforcement Team of the Magic Union in Hailansa City, the mysterious magic crystal did not fall into the hands of the magician.

  This also means that the magic crystal is likely to be in Wall Village.

A row of chestnut trees and hawthorn trees were transplanted outside the police station. Ludwig hid by the low wall of the lantern fruit tree and peeped into the police station secretly. Across the dark bushes, he felt that the police station was quiet. He squatted in the bushes and waited for a while, but didn't find anything unusual, so he decided to go around the back of the yard and sneak into the security station...

  (end of this chapter)