"Suddenly retreated?"
Gray could not help but frown when he heard the woman's deduction.
If the civilians of this world wanted to move, they would definitely not let go of anything. After all, in this world with backward productivity, it would cost a lot of money to buy these things.
However, no one in this village took their daily necessities with them. This was definitely abnormal.
The purple-haired girl, Sophia, also frowned slightly. Then, she seemed to have thought of something.
She looked at the brown-bearded man who was also looking in this direction and said.
"Uncle Teresa, go check the surroundings of the village. Pay attention to whether there are neatly arranged tombs around the village."
"Yes, Miss."
The brown-bearded man, Teresa, took the umbrella from the woman in the orange battle uniform and left.
"Miss Sophia thinks that these villagers are all dead and that they were killed at almost the same time?"
Gray looked at the purple-haired girl, Sophia, and asked.
Under normal circumstances, if someone died in a village in this world, they would be buried in different places outside the village.
Because the time of death was not the same, under normal circumstances, these tombs would be sparse and without any pattern.
However, there was one exception, and that was if a large number of people died at the same time. Because they were buried at the same time, the tombs would be neatly arranged.
Sophia said to pay attention to the neatly arranged tombs. Obviously, she was trying to determine if a large number of villagers died at the same time.
"I have this suspicion."
The purple-haired girl, Sophia, nodded and said.
"Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that they encountered some emergency and did not have time to take their daily necessities, so they suddenly retreated."
Clap clap clap!
They did not have to wait for long. After a while, the brown-bearded man, Teresa, appeared with the sound of footsteps.
Everyone could not help but look at him. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he did not hesitate and said.
"There is indeed a large area of neatly arranged tombs. Looking at the number, I'm afraid there are one or two hundred."
Hearing the brown-bearded man's words, the woman in the red battle uniform was slightly surprised.
"In other words, the people in this village are basically dead, and at almost the same time. Could it be that they encountered bandits?"
"It is very possible, but we can't rule out other possibilities …"
Sophia frowned.
Everyone was silent as they tried to guess what had happened to the people in this village. At the same time, they sympathized with these people as they actually encountered such misfortune.
In the middle of the night, the pouring rain had stopped, but the sky was still gloomy. There was no moonlight, and the world was plunged into darkness.
And it was in this darkness that blurry figures with white light suddenly appeared one after another.
They were like cats that had smelled blood. They came to the houses where there were people, easily passing through the doors and walls.
In a large tent, seven men slept side by side on the ground covered with only a layer of straw mats. The weather had just rained and was slightly cold, so they couldn't help but tightly wrap themselves in thin blankets.
At this moment, a hazy figure shrouded in white light easily passed through the leather tent and entered the tent.
As the hazy figure shrouded in white light entered, the temperature in the tent suddenly dropped. The seven of them subconsciously pulled the blankets on their bodies and curled up even more.
The hazy figure shrouded in white light slowly approached. Finally, he came close to one of the seven men and stuck his entire body onto him.
The hazy figure shrouded in white light passed through the quilt and attached to the man's body. The two merged into one and couldn't be distinguished from each other. But at this time, the man's body also began to emit a hazy white light.
"Ah —"
At this moment, the man's mouth let out an unconscious scream. His body couldn't help but twist. His hands clutched at his neck and long saliva flowed out of his mouth like a child.
"Pat, what's wrong with you?"
The man's strange behavior awakened the other six people. They all looked at the man who was emitting white light in surprise. They reached out to shake the man, but they couldn't help but retract their hands. The man's body was cold, like a block of ice.
The man's scream didn't last long and stopped. The man's eyes were rolled outwards, his mouth was wide open, and his body was spasming. He didn't move anymore.
Then, the hazy white figure gradually floated up from his body. It turned around and pounced on another man.
"Ah —"
Screams and screams of horror connected together.
Gray was sleeping in the tent. Because it was the first time he enjoyed such treatment in a tent, Gray slept very lightly.
Suddenly, he felt the temperature in the tent drop by a lot. He opened his eyes in confusion. His eyes were hazy and everything was a blur in his eyes.
But in the next moment, his face became horrified.
Originally, there was only him and the brown bearded man Teresa in the tent. Suddenly, there was a third person in the tent.
This person's body was emitting white light.
The night was pitch-black, but he saw this person. It wasn't through infrared perception, but through the naked eye.
What made him even more horrified was that the person in front of him was not standing on the ground. Instead, he was suspended in the air, about twenty centimeters above the ground.
This person was actually standing in the air!
"Ghost!"
This phrase had appeared in some of the books in the castle's library that were similar to hunting mysteries, and it suddenly appeared in his mind.
At that time, he just laughed when he read these books. In his heart, he had already determined that they were fiction.
After all, he was a person who received a materialistic education in his previous life. Even if he had experienced such an incredible thing as time travel, it still did not change him at all.
But now he believed it, because the facts were right in front of him.
The appearance of floating in the air, the body emitting white light, the face could not be seen clearly. How similar was it to the ghost described in the castle's books?
The ghost was approaching, and Gray felt the temperature around him getting lower and lower.
Crack!
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He grabbed the magic sword beside the pillow, suddenly jumped up, and then quickly slashed with the sword.
Whoosh!
Under the light emitted by the ghost, the blue and white sword suddenly slashed the ghost's body.
But in the next moment, a scene that made Gray even more horrified appeared. The ghost that had been slashed by the longsword was like the surface of a lake that had been slashed. A slight ripple appeared on it, and then it completely returned to normal.
His attack did not work on the ghost!
"The body emitted light, the attack was ineffective. I didn't expect there to be such a thing as a ghost …"
At this moment, a voice sounded. He turned his head slightly and saw that at some point, the bearded man had also stood up and was looking at the ghost warily.
Woo — —
And the ghost seemed to be alarmed by Gray's action. It stretched out its hands and pounced on the two of them, its mouth emitting a horrifying sharp whine.
Slash!
The sword split the tent open, and Gray did not hesitate to retreat quickly.
According to the books, anyone who was touched by the ghost would immediately feel cold and lose control of their body, and finally die. He must not let such a thing touch him.
Just like him, the brown-bearded man also retreated quickly.
"Ah — —"