Son of the Olden Days

"Hello, distinguished guest, welcome to you." An old woman behind the counter greeted Sol.

Saul smiled and nodded, and then entered the store to wander around.

This is an ordinary jewelry store. Among them, the best quality jewelry is only gold, and the quantity is relatively rare. There are more silver ones, and the ordinary civilian jewelry of copper rings and earrings occupies more than half of the counter.

Except for the difference in metal materials, these jewelry rarely use gems. Instead, the decoration of gems is replaced by polishing and inlaying of various colors of coral. Perhaps this is also a feature of the coastal area.

Sol entered this jewelry shop for two main purposes. One was to remember that there was a bunch of shiitake mushrooms at home, so he happened to bring something back to them, so as not to be chased by them for gifts.

The second is that Sol is going to inquire about the surrounding environment of the territory of Silent Hill, and whether there is any terrain such as forests. Now that I have an interest relationship with the shopkeeper, the news I get can be relatively reliable.

Sol has always had little insight on the jewelry piece, so I can only choose some colors and appearances that are pretty good based on my own feelings. After the checkout, Sol then asked about his concerns.

As a local, the old woman answered very honestly.

She told Sol that there were two small towns and one village in the entire Garanda territory, with Silent Hill as the main town and facing the sea to the west. After the terrain is enlarged, it can be said that Garanda has forests on both sides of the north and south, and the east is a messy wilderness terrain with only a few small woods.

When Sol asked about the internal environment of the forest, the old woman said that in the mild season, the woodcutters and hunters in the town would often enter the forest. The danger level of the forest can only be regarded as average. In short, it is far from distracting. Degree.

Then Saul claimed that he had always been an adventurer traveling around, and he was very interested in the cultural knowledge of the foreign races on the mainland, and asked if there were any foreign races in the forest surrounding the old woman's territory.

The old woman smiled and shook her head, answering that she had never heard of her in the forty or fifty years of living in the town.

After thanking him, Sol left the jewelry shop and went to sit in a tavern where the local news was more circulated, but there was nothing new.

This made Saul a little undecided for a while.

According to the information received, the two forests in the north and south of Garanda don't even have names, and they should be just ordinary forests. Like the original Sleeping Forest on the east side of Gray Screen Town, it won't get its name for no reason, and the vastness and danger of the Sleeping Forest is indeed deeply understood by Thor.

Now that the destination is not clear, there is no efficiency to talk about, and we can only start a clumsy search one by one.

Forget it, since it is a search, the hard work that should be paid is always paid.

So in the following days, Sol began to wander in the north and south forests of Garanda.

He enters different areas of the forest every day, searching according to his temporary hand-drawn map. It's a pity that many days passed, and he found nothing except for a series of useless footprints.

Now that the border is sealed by heavy snow, snow in the sky flooded the mainland, and the forest was not spared.

Trees bent by the snow can be seen everywhere, and grasses and fallen leaves are also buried in white. The howling cold wind rushed with the biting chill, and when there was no wind, Wan Lai was quiet and disappeared. It is indeed suffering to come out in such a harsh climate to find someone.

One day, when he met a bear who was hibernating in search of food, Saul thought there would be a fight, but the bear just watched from a distance. One person and one bear looked at each other affectionately, and then went home separately. This was Sol's only encounter in this half of winter.

Soon the first two months of winter came to an end in Sol's nothing.

Going back to the hotel in town, using the temperature of the stove to dry the damp coat, Saul felt that it could not go on.

The hard work is second, but the key is that Sol thinks it doesn't make sense to go on like this.

Igrid once said that she met a human girl in the forest, which made Saul subconsciously think that Igrid's tribe may not be far from the human settlement, and it is likely to be related to the forest.

But in the final analysis, these are just Saul's blind judgments, without any basis.

Because Igrit did not personally say whether their tribe lived in the forest and whether they were close to humans. Even if Saul really guessed right, how deep is their tribe and human contact? Will there be no communication all year round? There is no clue.

As a result, Thor's daily search can only stay on the outer surface of the forest, not daring to go too deep.

The danger is only second. The key is that the area of ​​the two forests is actually not small. If you want to search every corner completely, Sol estimates that even if he spends the entire winter on it, it may not be enough.

So Sol decided to leave, take a boat to the Black Reef Territory to have a look, and leave it for the last month as a trip.

Sol didn't feel too sorry for not being able to find Igrit. After all, he had been mentally prepared before the journey began.

Many things in life are like this, sometimes if you miss it, you can't find it again.

I took a short rest and went to the next day.

Sol went to the port of Silent Hill to buy a morning ticket, and then boarded a wooden brig named "Sail Sail".

Fengfan is a merchant ship. In fact, there is no special passenger ship in the seaport town of Silent Hill. It is usually commercial ships and offshore fishing boats, and will pull a wave of guests to earn some scattered coins when sailing.

So if you buy a ferry ticket in Silent Hill, there are passing ships that can carry people at all times, so there is no need to wait too long.

Holding on to the side of the ship to breathe in the oncoming sea breeze, Sol feels very fresh about the experience of riding a boat for the first time in his life. Of course, at this time, there is nothing to see in the dark sea in the distant sea. Only the sights can see occasionally passing by A small amount of ice floes.

The captain of this merchant ship is a spirited old man and a businessman at the same time. He seemed to judge that Saul was not a local at a glance, so he told Saul not to get too close to the ship's side with a smile on his face, so as not to fall into the sea because of the turbulence of the waves.

Saul smiled and turned his head to greet him. Although he had learned to swim by the lake in the sleepy forest outside the town of Grayscreen, it would undoubtedly be a sad story if he jumped into the icy water and flopped a few times in this kind of weather.

From Silent Hill Port to Black Reef Port is equivalent to getting from one territory to another. It takes about six days to travel by land, but less than three days by boat is enough.

Sol began to wonder whether it was worthwhile to build a port in the endless sea behind the territory of the Freedom City.

If the city of Liberty is used for trade by sea, the voyage from other territories seems a bit far away, and the other side does not have a dock, but the harvest in fishing and hunting should be more impressive. But before that, we must first sweep away the threats in the sea.

The environment here is very calm like Silent Strait, and it is said that there are very few monsters landing in the sea.

Sol was not the only guest on this sea journey. There was also a female adventurer and two men dressed as merchants.

To stay at sea for two or three days, Sol originally thought he would encounter seasickness, but he waited and waited but felt slightly uncomfortable. The old captain explained that adventurers usually pay attention to exercise their balance in all aspects, so there are not many seasicknesses.

After dinner the next day, the female adventurer suddenly walked to the bow deck and put the dome hat on her head on the ground. Then she took out a small harp, just sat on a wine barrel, and started her improvisation.

Seeing that this woman was slightly formal, everyone on the deck heard it for a while before realizing that she was obviously a troubadour who was traveling. Her singing is not bad, at least her voice and music are very pleasant.

After the performance was over, Sol chatted with her with great interest, and invited her to visit the northern border of the Northland if she had the opportunity, and claimed that the territory of the Freedom City there was a place longing for art and music.

After putting down two silver coins in the little fur hat, Sol thought for a while and put down two more silver coins and told her that if she could persuade some people to settle in the Freedom City on her journey, everyone in a household would have one head. Silver coins, 50 copper per person if counted by a single head.

Obviously this is the recurrence of Thor's habit of digging corners, but the female troubadour said that she must do her best. At the same time, she also invited Sol to spend the night in the cabin, claiming that there would be no cost, and this was just an artistic dedication.

With the sea breeze blowing, and still on the boat, the two souls who yearn for art have undoubtedly dried up the atmosphere in all aspects.

In the end, Saul declined the invitation with regret and expressed admiration for the female poet's dedication and consciousness.

When you build a fishing boat, you can trick Beth into the boat, maybe... you can also put her in a pirate costume? Putting on her black goggles just to play the role of the pirate captain, Thor happily made a decision while clutching the ship's side.

I don't know how thrilling it would be to bully the female pirate captain, Saul thinks it is necessary, and Beth's mushroom must be made aware of the danger of unruly sailing.

By the afternoon of the third day, the merchant ship arrived at the Black Reef Port on time, and the female bard took the initiative to hug Thor and bid farewell.

After a fairly good sea trip, Sol went straight to the tavern in Black Rock Town.

After buying a few drinks and listening to the drunkards telling a bunch of jokes about the **** and ass, Saul asked him what he cared about.

The environment of the territory of Black Reef is even worse than that of Silent Hill. There is a small town and two villages in the entire territory, and in Saul's eyes, this small town is actually similar to a village.

The surrounding environment of the territory also has two forests in the north and south.

It's just that the forest in the south of Black Reef is actually the back of Silent Hill's northern forest. If you pass through the forest in the north of Black Reef, you can reach a stretch of unnamed mountains.

At this time, there was still a month left in the cold winter, and Sol was going to split the time in half and go for a last wandering in the forests in the north and south directions. Then, no matter what the result is, just go home.

Just when Sol thought this journey would pass so peacefully and windlessly, things had new twists and turns.

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