"What was that just now..." Dagon hesitated for a while, but still squeezed out two words: "Things?"

"Thank you for your blessing." Jeros stood in the sparse rain, kissed the holy emblem, and then put it on his neck again. "No matter what it is... people are not something we can deal with. The rain is about to stop, so let's go on the road now, at least change places."

Everyone looked at the quarry and nodded vigorously.

The convoy was about to set off again, and everyone started to be busy again. Dagon took some rain to wash away the blood of the cow on the ground of his "room". Toby was responsible for the car behind him and was putting a harness on the horse. "Hey, Dagon, do you think it was the God of War Copes who blessed us?"

"I don't know. I only saw strange thunder falling from the sky, and there was indeed a breath of divine power. I can't tell whether it was Copes, maybe the priest can."

"Maybe it's the blessing of God Aoli."

"Maybe." Dagon nodded. Maybe he could ask Reed, didn't he say that he had a good relationship with all kinds of gods?

"Dagon, I may know who that monster old man is...what is." Toby said with a whimper, making a tsk sound.

"Then why don't you tell Leader Geros?"

"I was so scared that before I could remember, the leader stood out." Toby sighed, patted his chest and said, "Dagon, do you want to hear what I know?"

"If you don't let your words talk, you will suffocate to death, and you will ask me all the way - who told me to be in the car in front of you? Tell me."

Toby covered half of his face with his hands and said mysteriously: "My grandma heard a story from a very distant relative of her, and the story mentioned an old man who came out of lightning."

"What's that story?" Dagon asked with a rag to wipe the bloodstains from the carriage.

"I always thought it was a story of scaring children, but I didn't expect to see it." Toby used the fastest speed to get the horse in Dagon's carriage and said, "The old man never said his name, but people called him the thunder messenger. He always appeared before a huge disaster, warning and scaring those who saw him. If he was smart enough, run quickly, the farther away, the better, there was still a glimmer of life to avoid the disaster."

After Dagon wiped the blood stains, he put the rag on the carriage, wiped the sweat and sat next to Toby. "The story is not that simple, what else did your grandma's distant relative say?"

"Well, they encountered the thunder messenger in late autumn. It rarely rained at that time, but every time it rained, it made the weather even colder. The family in the story was a hunter. They hunted rabbits and foxes for the lords, and also raised a few deer so that the lord would not return empty-handed when holding a hunting event."

"Suddenly one day, just like we were yesterday, the sky suddenly darkened and the rain poured down - I should have thought of this story earlier." Toby rubbed his nose and said, "The rain suddenly fell that day, and soon it was as deep as his waist - or to the knees of the dwarf. The wind was cold, and ice fell from the sky soon."

"Ice?" Dagon was shocked. He thought of the ice floating in the Koushui Gorge. "Don't you kill everyone if you drop the ice?"

"Smash to death? Other races may not die. Our halflings have small and thin heads, so they don't want to smash them anyway." Toby said: "They put the pot on their heads, put clothes under the pot, and ran out of the house quickly. They were preparing to hide in the cave not far from their homes, which must be safer than thatched houses."

"Often, they use caves as storage rooms and cover them with shrubs and grass. Others don't know where the cave entrance is. There are robbers everywhere, and half-lings are best bullied. This is also a helpless move. They thought they could arrive in more than ten minutes, but they didn't see where the mountain was in half an hour. They probably got lost or were confused by spells. At this time, thunder began."

"You know that lightning will spread with the water, and climbing onto a tree may cause lightning to be struck by lightning, so they think they are dead. At this moment, they saw lightning in the distance constantly hitting the same position, and a white fish appeared and swam towards them all the way..."

"Wait, is it a fish or an old man?"

"Am I talking about fish? I'm talking about an old white man who swims like a fish."

"Forget it, I don't want to hear it anymore." Dagon shook his head, stood up, and prepared to go outside to see if others needed help.

"Don't, when I told me that it was indeed a fish. When I got close, an old man stood up. He was a half-ling old man, floating on the water with a piece of wood. He was so old that he could grow a beard on his lips - we half-lings don't have beards, unlike you dwarves."

"This story is getting more and more outrageous. An old half-linger, not an old human, so..."

Toby shook his head vigorously, grabbed Dagon's arm, and said, "I'm not making up stories first. This story is really what I've heard before. The old man in the lightning warned them not to go east, to go south quickly, and hide under the sun. Then, the old man drilled into the cave, and after a burst of explosion, the cave disappeared. At this time, they realized that it was because of the rising water that they did not recognize the nearby terrain."

"The halflings attach great importance to the mysterious warning, so they started to look south without waiting for the rain to stop. To the south was a forest. The only thing they could hide under the sun was a clearing of white gravel. They hid wherever they were, and then the earth cracked and a volcano suddenly appeared."

"Every place was either burned or buried by volcanic ash, and they..." Toby kept a secret and said, "A yellow dragon was killed by the gushing volcano and fell down, just using its body and wings to protect the open space. So the obedient and kind halfling hid under the dragon's body and did not receive any damage from the volcano. The story is over."

Dagon bulged his cheeks, as if he was about to get angry, but in the end he still slowly ejaculated and said less hurtful words. "Okay, this is your story. An old man with lightning gave a warning. People should accept the warning and do as they do so, so that they can be safe. I understand this meaning, but what did the old man we just saw warn?"

"Someone wants to destroy the world, and others can stop him. Others..." Toby shook his head, his shoulders fell down, and said, "I didn't understand."

"I didn't understand either. Maybe someone else understood it, so the warning was told to them." Dagon held the side of the carriage and turned over and jumped down, standing firmly on the ground. "If you have free time, why not ask who understands it, and then tell Jelos your story. I haven't left Jian's ancient city for 60 years, and I don't understand the things outside very much, I don't understand too much."

"What you said may make sense." Toby also jumped down, but he did not look for others, especially Geros, but went to find his own horse. The horses in the convoy did not rest enough, and now they would squirt their noses from time to time, fighting with each other with their hind legs and tails, which was an irritable mood.

The convoy slowly advanced and left the quarry. The rain gradually stopped, but the damage caused by the heavy rain appeared at this time. Most roads were destroyed, either turned into puddles or disappeared completely. In contrast, some areas occupied by grass or shrubs were safer.

Maipu took a one-handed machete and opened the road in front, and from time to time he cut down the shrubs or grass that might have entangled the car, opening up a road behind him. He seemed to have a unique intuition about the terrain, and everyone trusted him very much, followed him without hesitation through the valley and through the woods. After two hours, Dagon had no idea what was going on, and the convoy came to a ridge. There was also a road that was enough for the carriage to pass because it was located at a high place because it was not soaked or destroyed.

The rain stopped completely and the sun crawled out. Only then did everyone know that it was the next dusk. The red clouds occupied half of the sky, as if continuous flames, and the other half of the sky was still black, with dark clouds stacked, as if pressing forward step by step. A group of black birds rattled and flew over the convoy. They could fly back into the sky, which should be cheerful, but their screams made people irritated. The air was filled with the smell of charcoal fire after burning, and the stimulating breath of grass absorbing water excessively.

"I probably know where we are." Maip asked the convoy to continue along the ridge road and specifically ran to the middle of the convoy to find Geros. "I saw the Duck Lake, behind our side. That is to say, along the ridge and then find a way, it should be not far from Baima Town. If there is no disaster there, we can take a rest."

From the gap in the tarp, Dagon could see Jeros, and his sad face was clearly entangled on his face. He spitted smoke rings, frowned and thought deeply, and then stomped his feet hard on the ground. "Why can Baima Town not be affected by such heavy rain?"

"It's so bad. Boss, are you worried that the person who is affected will transfer the losses to us?"

"I have to consider this possibility. I want to find a place that can avoid sight first, preferably with a larger space, so that the convoy can rest first. Tess' bowstring needs to be maintained with fire, so we have to polish the iron tools, and it will be bad if it is rusted."

"Okay, I'll try to find an open space to see if I can go down from the ridge first." Maipu scratched his head as if it was a scar on the map, and said, "Boss, it's just that we can find the open space. As long as we make a fire, we can still find it."

"Tonight, while the night is dark, the people in the village cannot see the smoke. Look at the east side of us, dark clouds are floating here. There is a very likely no moonlight or starlight tonight, which will make us relatively safe. Maipu, send the order, and now you are prohibited from using whistles, and everyone will whistle down. Also, don't smoke."

Geros took the lead. He rinsed his pipe into the puddle on the side of the road, then wiped it carefully, and carefully put it in his arms. Dagon jumped out of the carriage and found Geros. He said that he was once a scout of the hunting team and could see things at night, which was suitable for conducting a forward investigation when it became darker and darker. But before Geros could express his opinion, Maip ran back from the front.
Chapter completed!