Chapter 557 Formic Acid Meat Nest
Thor followed the mountain movers along the road and walked into the nearby ancient forest of survivors.
However, the mountain climber took a slight detour and avoided the place where the seven blindfolded ordinary people had appeared.
Thor followed him all the way into the woods and halfway up the hillside.
Then the donkey carriage stopped and drove over the mountain. A man stood on the carriage and lifted up the black leather, and threw the boy on top under the roots of a big tree.
The donkey cart started again, leaving the motionless boy where he was, and continued deep into the ancient forest.
But Thor stopped following, and his footsteps stayed beside the boy.
He squatted down and looked through the boy's mouth, nose, and eyelids, and finally found a wooden thorn half a finger long on the back of the boy's neck.
The wooden thorns penetrated shallowly into the skin and hung there.
He pulled out the wooden thorn, smelled the smell on it, and showed a faint smile.
"Are they using this to disguise people into suspended animation?"
"Is this an underground trade? If someone discovers it, they can easily turn people into real deaths."
Thor looked at the boy's hands and feet again.
Although the other person was only eleven or twelve years old, his hands were full of calluses and he had obviously been working a lot.
Looking at it, Sol said "Huh".
He used his hands to squeeze the boy's skull and spine, "This boy has been forced to grow up."
Although the boy looked to be in his teens, his actual age was probably only seven or eight years old.
He is like the wheat seedlings in the field, being encouraged by others!
After Sol's troubles, the boy still didn't wake up.
If he continues like this, he will go from fake death to real death.
"It seems that people who do this business don't care much about the survival rate of the goods."
The bearded man used some connection to send the boy completely out of the settlement by feigning death. And the mountain climber and the old flowerpot man guarding the gate should both know about this.
They turn a blind eye and most likely benefit from this approach.
Judging from their current indifference to the boy, they already have vested interests, so naturally they don't need to pay too much attention to the entrusted goods.
Life and death depend on fate.
In other words, it would be best to die.
No hidden dangers will be left.
Seeing the life in the boy's body gradually disappearing, Thor suddenly raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and a healing spell fell, causing the boy who was about to enter the ravine of death to suddenly open his eyes.
"Cough cough cough cough... cough cough cough..."
The boy coughed violently as soon as he opened his eyes and crawled back from the death level, causing considerable damage to his body.
When the boy finally regained his breath, he saw a man wearing a wizard's robe squatting beside him from the corner of his eye.
Facing Thor, who had just saved his life, the boy had a look of horror in his eyes.
He subconsciously crawled backwards, trying to stay away from Thor, but he slammed into the big tree behind him.
A few pieces of dead branches and leaves fell from the head.
"There's no need to be afraid. There's no point in being afraid. Let me ask, and you answer?"
The boy's back was firmly pressed against the big tree behind him. He slid his throat with difficulty and swallowed, but his mouth was so dry that it hurt.
After a moment, he regained his composure and nodded.
He stared at Sol like a little rabbit just out of the nest.
"Is that bearded man your father?"
The boy hesitated.
"I'll kill you if you lie." Thor's voice did not fluctuate at all.
Faced with such a death threat, the boy did not have the fear and panic he had when he just found Thor standing next to him.
"Yes."
"When I came here, I saw you running away, but the people behind you held you down and nailed two holes in your feet. What are you doing?" "They said I can be a meat maker when I grow up
. I saw a hole in the sole of the boy's foot, and two more ants were put in. He screamed in pain. I, I was scared, so I ran out." "What happened to this wooden thorn
? What's the matter?"
Thor raised the wooden thorn he pulled out from the boy's neck in front of the boy.
The boy looked at Mu Ci blankly and shook his head.
"Then why were you thrown out again?"
The boy recalled for a moment.
"After I was captured, they put an ant on the sole of my foot. But as soon as the ant crawled into the sole of my foot, I fainted from the pain and didn't know what happened." "Oh, your father is looking for you
. When they secretly sent you out, didn't they give you any instructions on how to live your life after leaving the gathering place?"
The boy still looked confused, but everyone could clearly hear his suddenly accelerated heartbeat.
"Sure enough, all the real Silly Baitian would have died long ago if they lived in a place like this." Sol shook his head in his heart.
He did not continue to dwell on the problem. I just said this just to tell the boys that I have caught your pigtails and it’s time to ask some in-depth questions.
"What is the Meat Nest?"
"Does this settlement not allow ordinary people inside to leave?"
"Do many wizards here leave after they come in?"
The boy answered some questions, while others just shook his head to express his ignorance.
After almost drying up the information in the boy's mind, Thor stood up again.
He looked at the boy leaning weakly on the big tree, took out some food from the storage and threw it on him.
The small package that the boy's father gave to the mountain climber was probably the food intended for the boy.
It's just that the mountain climber didn't intend to let the boy survive, so he naturally found the food in the package.
"This is your reward for answering my questions. Of course, if you tell the truth, you can get more."
After saying this, Thor turned around and prepared to continue into the mountain.
He was going to find some Toto termites.
If the termite formic acid can really produce a magical drug that has no side effects and can put wizards into a state of high-speed brain operation, it will definitely become a rare witchcraft material in the future and be competed by many wizards.
It would be better for him to start researching now.
It's just that since this humpback termite is so magical, it must be guarded by someone. Thor had to be careful not to miss his tracks, lest he be targeted by the second-level wizards in the settlement.
As soon as Sol took two steps, he heard the boy behind him calling him.
"Master Wizard, please wait a moment."
Thor stopped and turned around.
"Sir, can I, can I..."
"No." Thor knew what the boy wanted to ask, but he refused without hesitation.
When he just checked the boy's body, he found that the boy's mental and physical body had been damaged for a long time.
Let alone becoming an apprentice, it is difficult to even live healthily to the age of twenty.
Unless he can have the opportunity of the good-for-nothing protagonist in the novel, encounter some heavenly and earthly treasure, and the I Ching cleanse the marrow, ah no, it should be said to reorganize the spiritual body, awaken the magic talent, and amplify the elemental perception, otherwise he will not even have a little bit of it. There are no opportunities to learn.
The boy originally wanted to fight for it again, but as soon as he raised his head, he met Thor's eyes as calm as the deep sea. The plea in his mouth could not come out.
"He's quite smart, it's a pity." Seeing that the boy was ignorant and did not continue to plead, Thor turned and left.
He walked forward in the forest and released the small algae.
"Be careful not to disturb the people and creatures here."
Xiaowei jumped to the ground, burrowed under the soil, and disappeared.
About half an hour later, he suddenly emerged again, and black tentacles circled Thor's ankles.
Sol followed Xiaozao's strength and walked forward silently.
Not long after, he saw several familiar figures in the mountains and forests ahead.
They were several thin figures with black eyes covered and shackled feet.
The leader also carried a lantern and moved forward silently.
According to the boy, these people should be the meat nests used to collect formic acid.
Thor quickly walked around in front of these seven people, only to find that these seven people were no longer the seven he had seen before.
"It seems that in this small settlement, most ordinary people are candidates for making meat nests."
(End of Chapter)