Chapter 1071 (1/1)
The reminder comes from a woman with a soft voice and a bit of weakness inside. You don't need to look back. Cheese knows that the other person's health must be bad. When he stood up and turned his head, the woman on the bank not far behind him still let his eyelids jump. She is so thin that even the clothes that have been cut very narrow, they are like a pocket on her body. If slim is a kind of aesthetic preference, then it has gone beyond the aesthetic boundary. No one will think that this morbid emaciation is a kind of beauty, unless he regards decline as a kind of aesthetics.
But even if there is a sense of beauty in decay, it can not be reflected in human beings. Looking at the woman in front of her, cheese's brain can only associate with famine, disease, despair and death. It has to be said that with such a body, she can stand there and talk to the mage as if nothing happened. This woman herself is surprising. That is to say, the surprise completely attracted the mage's attention.
”Will you not look at me like that? I don't feel very well. ” People who are staring at cheese actually have similar reactions. Because his eyes are special, there is no desire or calculation in it. When the mage stares at him, it is like facing a machine, a machine that can analyze you from the inside to the outside, from the skin to the bone. Few people like this feeling, especially those who are sensitive to their own body. People with disabilities are the most taboo for others to mention their disability. Similarly, the extremely thin woman felt that the mage did not regard herself as a human being when she was observed.
”Sorry. And thank you for the reminder Cheese blinked. He could draw a lot of conclusions from his observation just a few seconds ago. First of all, clothes. The so-called clothes on the girl are just two pieces of cloth sewn together, and the hood on her head is more like a piece of rag coarsely tied to the neckline. Regardless of her abnormal body shape, her life was very difficult in terms of her clothes. There are two possibilities. Either, she has no means to make a living and no family, so she becomes miserable. Or, she had family members who, for some reason, had given up maintaining her dignity.
Both possibilities exist, and they are not much different. If such a person appears in such a small town, she can be regarded as an orphan, whether she has any living blood relatives or not. Cheese walked slowly out of the shoal. He noticed that every step forward, the woman consciously took a step back. There seemed to be an invisible beam between them, which was against their chest, making them unable to get close to each other.
”You're not from this town.” The woman said, her eyes because of the whole face of the thin and abnormal large, people can not help but think of the eyes of dead fish.
Cheese's brain is thinking about the coping strategy, his instinct tells him that there is something wrong with this woman. But he can't open his magic vision in front of the other party, which will undoubtedly frighten her, ”I'm a passer-by, resting in this town. When I was thirsty, I wanted to get some water to drink. You don't allow me to drink the water here, but I hear that it's all from here in this town. ”
”They are here to get water. However, the water should be kept still and then boiled to drink. If you drink it directly, you will get sick. ” The woman said patiently, not because of the ignorance of cheese.
This made the mage confirm two more things. First, this person is not bad, at least in the broad sense of good and bad people, she should be regarded as a good person. Second, she doesn't know much. Pointing out that drinking river water will make you sick is just a manifestation of ignorance, because cheese has already reported the identity of his traveler. If a traveler doesn't know this common sense, then he has a real problem. It can be seen that her insight is not broad, so for her, the matter that water must be kept still and boiled is only necessary for this river and even this section of the river. Because she had no idea what the drinking water in other areas was like.
”I see. I see.” Cheese nodded, but did not mean to pour out the water in the corner cup. Just as he was thinking about the reason why he should continue to get more information from the woman's mouth, the other party took the initiative to extend a hand to him. Like her other exposed bodies, the arm was dry like dried bacon.
”I helped you and gave me food.” This simple logic made the mage not know how to deal with it. Seeing the hesitation of cheese, the woman seemed worried. She took the initiative to take a step forward and repeated what she had just said. This time, she got a response. The mage felt his body in a panic and found some meat jerky from his waist pocket. It was a snack for them to relieve their boredom and relieve their slight hunger when they were marching on the grassland. But before the jerky was taken out, cheese hesitated. He was not reluctant to give up the jerky, but was afraid that the hard jerky would hurt the other party's fragile digestive system.
Just as the emaciated woman took another two steps forward, and the voice of begging for food became more excited, the heavy footstep sound accompanied by a low drink came from the direction near the town, ”get out! You witch
Hearing the rage, the woman was immediately struck by lightning. She curled up subconsciously and fled to the woods by the shoal. Cheese stretched out his hand to stop him, but he turned to think that it was not a good thing to force the other party to stay. Anyway, he already knew that there was such a person here, so he might as well wait and find her with something easy to chew and swallow. Now, he wants to see the one who drove her away.He was a lumberjack. He was a lumberjack in terms of his appearance, clothes and feeling. He had a big beard, curly, shaggy eyebrows, hair that almost covered his eyes, a strong body, and a more decorative than practical chopper at his waist. This kind of axe is good for ordinary trees, but it is not enough to cut down valuable trees. The man spat in the direction where the thin woman disappeared, and then crushed it with his feet. This is a simple exorcism ceremony, but also a rather vulgar folk custom.
”You call her a witch. I only see a poor woman.” Cheese's tone is a little discontented. He had met real Witches and had a good relationship with some of them. Therefore, he knew that it was no accident that witches had a bad reputation among the people. They were really dangerous. But the more they understand the danger of real Witches, the more they can't accept that ordinary women are witches. They are just transferring their fear of the unknown to these poor women. They have never really faced witches and dare not face real Witches.
”Don't be fooled by her appearance, stranger.” The woodcutter's moustache approached cheese. Interestingly, although he was powerful and powerful, he was shorter than the mage. ”She has been like that since three years ago. Have you ever thought about how she survived these three years without shelter and food sources? It can only be the devil. The woman has sold herself to the devil, so she is a witch
Not to mention this arbitrary judgment basis, the mage did grasp a very useful information from the other side's words, for three years. According to the boatman's words, this small town's abnormal situation just happened. But it doesn't get rid of the haze on that woman. She still has the value of being investigated.
”Well, I see. When you're right, she's a witch. So how about you? Who are you? ”
Big beard smell speech clapped his chest, ”who am I? I'm an ordinary woodcutter in jiefa town. You can call me banyan. ”