Chapter 95: Ambush From the Night (1/2)

They said they had to pack up, but they had been toeing the line of poverty for months now, so there wasn’t much of anything of value they had to bring.

Before the sky had fully darkened, the villagers were ready to go.

“You guys trekking through the night? Or are you staying until tomorrow?” Jom was standing guard at the village entrance and asked the village elder as the elder walked past.

“We leave immediately,” the village elder replied without hesitation, “Although the bandits most likely won’t come back that soon, I am responsible for the lives of my villagers, and thus we must leave as soon as possible!”

“What about this guy?” Jom pointed at the malnourished gray Shar-Pei sleeping near the village entrance. “Are you not bringing him along?”

The village elder was silent for a moment, he shook his head. “He’s still waiting for his owner to come back, he’s not leaving this place.”

“But his owner…” Terry had got out before Jom elbowed him in the chest. “Some things are better left unsaid!”

The village elder watched the two quarrel, and turned back to look at the rest of the village, noticing every small detail of his home, his eyes filled up with nostalgia and longing.

From the day he was born, this village had been his everything, every corner of this village was filled with memories of his childhood, of his friends. He hadn’t expected to be forced to leave the place he grew up in at such an old age, the old man was obviously devastated.

The village elder was quickly led away by his family.

Under his guidance, villagers carried their belongings and bid their home one last farewell, families who reared animals even had their animals carry miscellaneous items on their back.

Not long later, the village that had just had a noisy, bustling celebration mere hours ago, was now a complete ghost town.

With nightfall, the dead silence that hung in the air left Jom feeling a little anxious, he started to miss the other players.

He didn’t like noise or loud sounds, but compared to that, this silence was much worse.

Compared to a place like this, he suddenly realized that he really enjoyed being with his rowdy gang of friends, joking and laughing their way through quests and missions.

He had originally wanted to avoid that sort of situation, that’s why he was all the way out here.

“They really are different.”

Terry was the first to break the silence, with him not speaking up until now, Jom had thought he was mad at him for elbowing him earlier.

“What’s different?”

“If the town was under attack by enemies, I would definitely fight back, I’d never run away!” Terry replied.

“Duh, we can revive.”

“It’s not like that!” Terry struggled to articulate his feelings. “Even if we couldn’t revive, even if we only had one life, I wouldn’t let our town get destroyed by some bad guys, I wouldn’t let them wreak such havoc!”

“…”