The map bought from a profiteer is simply a mess of the complex terrain of the mountainous areas (it is now certain that this part is completely drawn by personal imagination), but it is still a little better. The natural mountain road is not wrong, and the settlement is not wrong. After passing through the mountain, Ashrufat immediately saw a village. This village is at the foot of the mountain.

It is a small village common in the southern region. There are no defensive measures such as fences outside the village. Only dozens of simple houses are concentrated together, and almost the same number of houses are scattered around. Along the way, you can clearly feel that the roads outside the village are rugged and lack maintenance. However, the farmland outside is well organized, and you can occasionally see a farmer working in the fields.

If you are not mistaken, this place should be the junction of Meno and Istria. Like all newly developed lands, many border issues are actually quite vague, so where does this place belong is still a controversial question. However, for the lords, such a poor small village is really not worth the effort to fight for. They will focus more energy on specialties, commercial taxes, mines and other places.

Ashu Rufate noticed that the people in the village seemed very unfriendly. While he was riding by horse, he saw someone running by. People were hiding at home, looking at him as a stranger through the cracks in the door.

The profiteer who sold maps said that many people bought maps to cross the mountainous areas, but it seems that this is a lie. Otherwise, the villagers here would not have reacted like this. No matter what, he came from outside to the center of the village, and no one met and said hello. It was not that there was no one here, but that when everyone noticed that he came, they found a place to hide from afar and refused to say hello to him.

This atmosphere... is really not right. Even words such as xenophobia, conservative, and vigilant are not enough to describe this situation. It should be said that this is already a degree of "hostility".

In the middle of the village was a small open space. Although it was the center of the village, it was not leveled, and of course there were no flowers, sculptures, or springs. Ashu Rufate stopped his mount and could feel many people staring at him, the stranger. A child ran past the corner of a house and found Ashu Rufate. He was staring at the stranger riding there. Immediately, a woman came out of the thorn, hugged the child, rushed into the house, and then slammed the door.

Ashu Rufate was sure that his dress was nothing strange. His dress was simple, wearing a cloak and wearing leather clothes that were common to travel. Although he wore weapons, long-distance travelers often did this, and there was nothing worth paying special attention to or to be wary of.

Of course, vampires have been active in this area recently. But it is broad daylight now, and Ashu Rufate is very sure that ordinary people cannot judge the true identity of the Nightmare Horse.

Ashu Rufate originally planned to pass directly from the middle of the village, and at most asked the way to go to the nearest city. However, when this happened, he felt it was necessary to ask what was going on. He stopped his mount and stopped walking in the small open space.

As he expected, after a long time, the villagers finally realized that the stranger was not going to leave, and an old man came out of a house and came towards Ashu Rufate.

"Sir." The old man was about seventy years old, with a slightly hunched figure, and was leaning on a crutch in his hand. Ashrufat noticed the old man's clothes. The old man's clothes were quite good, at least much better than this simple house. In fact, it was not just this old man, the child and the woman, who were wearing it well. "Is there anything you have to do?"

"I traveled here," Ash Rufate replied. "Is there something going on here?"

"Where are you from?" the old man asked. Ashu Rufate noticed his eyes change.

"North." Ashurufat pointed to the distant mountainous area. "The road has been blocked by the official, I came over the mountain. I just arrived in Sivania... I want to know what happened here?"

"So you just came?" A look of relief appeared on the old man's face. "Sir, I thought you were sent by the lord."

The Lord sent... Ashu Rufat couldn't come back to his senses for a moment. Then he realized that the Lord here might be a harsh and greedy person and had too high taxes. Having said that, he really didn't inquire about Lord Sivania, but focused on the legend of the vampire.

"The Lord often sends people?" Ashurufat looked at the farmland outside the village, and it seemed that the crops were growing well.

"No." The old man obviously didn't want to continue discussing this topic with this stranger. After asking about Asu Ruffat's identity, his almost hostile cautious alert also decreased a lot. "Sir, where are you going? Walking there is Meno, and walking here is Istria and Via. Just walk along the road, you don't have to worry about getting lost."

"What happened in the village?" Ashu Rufat found that the old man was trying hard to send him away.

"Nothing, sir." The old man coughed. "It's just that our village rarely sees outsiders like you, and everyone is afraid of being angry." He said lightly. "Look, our village has only two or three hundred people, and there are no hotels, hotels, etc. Usually, there are no strangers who come to visit except for a few familiar small businessmen."

That being said, but Ashu Rufate was not stupid. He clearly felt that the old man seemed to want to hide something.

But, what do you want to hide?

"Master, why not ask about the vampire." In my mind, Carrie made a suggestion. "Let me find out a little. No matter what happened in this village, it doesn't seem to be something particularly worthy of attention."

This time, Ashu Rufate accepted Carrie's opinion.

"I heard," Asu Ruffat asked the old man. "Sivania has vampires active, have you heard of them?"

A trace of fear flashed in the old man's eyes. This was a very short expression, but Ashu Rufate still noticed it.

"We are a small place, and I haven't heard much." After a while, the old man struggled to answer.

"Oh, thank you." Asu Ruffatt replied. He said goodbye to the old man and moved towards Meno. The reason he chose this is because according to rumors, Meno was the place where vampires first appeared. If a vampire had a nest, then most of them would be in Meno.

They walked out of the village for a short distance and almost left the area of ​​the village. Mimilu, who had been silent behind Ashrufat, suddenly spoke.

"Master, he must have been lying just now." Mimilu grabbed Ash Rufate's cloak with force. "You can't be deceived like this, he must know about the vampire."

"Yes." Ashu Rufate stopped. "I think he knows something, too!"

"Then why did you leave?" Mimilu asked in confusion.

"He won't answer if I ask." Ashu Rufat said. "So I know it's meaningless to ask... And, Mimilu, do you think that the old man just now is definitely more than just 'knowing something'?"

"ah……"

"Mimilu, help me go back and see if they say anything and do anything!" Ashrufat said. Mimilu immediately jumped off the horse, put on all fours, and ran forward as fast as possible. She used her talent for color change, and soon became one with the road, making it difficult to tell.

Although it was daytime, with Mimilu's ability to hide, Ashrufat thought it was difficult for the villagers to find her. When he first met Mimilu, he almost didn't notice Mimilu's tracking.

He didn't wait for a long time. Mimilu jumped up from the roadside and jumped to his side.

"They do know something." Mimilu was a little panting because of the sprint. "I saw several of them gathering together, as if discussing something. Finally they gave a boy a letter to him to give it to the 'baron'."

"Baron?" Ashurufat remembered that someone had said that because the ghost place in Sivania is remote and desolate, and there are many plagues, it was just divided into three earl leaders, and there were no barons.

However, the so-called "baron" may not be really a baron, it is likely to be a nickname or something.

"Let's grab the letter?" Mimilu suggested.

"No." Ashu Rufat thought about it. Although the village has some inexplicable places, this matter can be put on its own. Perhaps this village is a den for robbers to sell stolen goods or something, and "Baron" is the nickname of a robber gang. Although he was a newcomer and did not know much about the situation in this place, he also heard that in addition to vampires, there are also a large number of robber groups in Sivania.

But then again, he did not have much information at the moment. Although he was in Mir City, although he actively inquired, most of the information he found was second-hand, third-hand news, and even unreliable rumors. After all, due to the blockade of business roads, those who gathered in Mir City were all merchants from the north and wanted to go to Sivania, and the merchants from Sivania had already left.

"Let's leave first," said Ashurufate. "Go to Meno first." Before taking the next move, you must carefully understand the situation in the entire place.

"Hey, master, aren't you going to meet that vampire? He can't be in the city." Mimilu questioned.

"No, I can't go see him directly." Ashu Rufate explained. "If he has malicious intentions towards me and set a trap to wait for me, I will be in danger."

"Why? Didn't the master say he is your kind? Why would you harm you?"

"It may not be harmful to me, but you must also be prepared for this." Ash Rufate said. "Since I was turned into a vampire, I have never seen a similar person... In fact, I don't know a vampire." He realized that this sentence was actually loopholes. He knew the vampire's queen Qinxin.

"In other words, the master cannot directly indicate his identity to meet him? What should the master plan to do?" Mimilu tilted her head and thought carefully.

"I'm thinking too," Ash Rufate replied.
Chapter completed!