Eternal Night

Chapter 445: Sneak In, War-Torn World

This world is very big. This is how Wu Xianxiao felt after one day and one night in this world.

The feeling was not obvious in the forest, but when coming to the endless grassland, the feeling was much more profound. Not to mention anything else, even though Wu Xianxiao's body was weakened to the limit, he could still see the distant horizon when concentrating his qi and blood. And when looking into the distance on the grassland, the horizon he saw was not the same as that seen on the earth, but a hazy belt formed because the viewing distance was too far. Even with this hazy belt, he could vaguely see buildings or mountains in the distance.

This world is probably not a spherical shape like the earth or a planet, but it may be similar to the round sky and square earth shape in myths and legends. I just don’t know how big the round sky and square earth in this world is. Is it still a planet? Just a bigger planet? But what about gravity?
Wu Xianxiao's mind was full of random thoughts and all kinds of distracting ideas. This was because his spirit was extremely weak and he would feel a headache from time to time, which naturally gave rise to all kinds of distracting thoughts. Now, except for his indestructible control, his other power systems were almost weakened to the extreme.

Walking eastward from the edge of the forest, Wu Xianxiao's walking speed was not fast, even slightly slower than that of ordinary people. Along the way, he was trying to find food, from grass seeds to insects, from various flowers to small fruits, and also a bag of food given by the female creature, about two or three pounds, but it was all dried meat, which was high-quality protein. Wu Xianxiao had already chewed it all into his stomach.

They ate and walked along the way. At about one o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Xianxiao discovered traces of human life. There were wheel marks left by wheels and heavy objects in the wild, as well as walking marks left by a large group of people and animals such as horses. Following these marks, Wu Xianxiao walked for about another hour and saw wild farmland that had been dug out of a pit.

However, Wu Xianxiao only took a few glances at the farmlands and frowned slightly.

These farmlands are not the kind of vast farmland areas. They are a patchwork of small, irregular pieces of farmland, and the crops planted are crooked, with no sense of neatness at all. Although there are no weeds and it can be seen that they have been maintained, there is no doubt that this has nothing to do with the modern agriculture that Wu Xianxiao knows.

Just from this, it can be seen that the technological level of this world is probably very poor.

Thinking of the female creature in the forest, this world might still be a world where multiple intelligent creatures live together. However, it is not known whether this world is in the midst of war, or has a fixed single regime, or a multinational regime.

Thinking of this, Wu Xianxian continued to move forward in the direction of the densely populated farmlands. He did not go to these farmlands to pick vegetables. The energy and nutrition that these vegetables could provide were very scarce. On the contrary, they were not as nutritious as some grasshoppers and other insects he caught.

However, the presence of villages and gatherings of people meant safety. At least he didn't have to worry about a group of wild beasts or monsters suddenly rushing out of the wild. It also meant a safe place to live and a more stable and larger source of food, which were what he urgently needed now. The only thing he had to worry about was how to integrate into them. After all, if this was an ancient environment with very backward productivity, then people in any village would be wary and resistant to outsiders.

Wu Xianxiao walked forward along the farmland, and soon he saw the village... This is not a village, right? It is either a market or a small fortress?
From all the previous signs, he might be facing a very ancient, backward, feudal, and even extremely shabby little village with serfs, feces and urine all over the ground, and serfs in tattered clothes. He had already anticipated all these.

But what appeared before him was a place with many sentry posts and arrow towers. Although low, it was indeed a small fortress and a small fortress with walls made of earth and stone. Outside the fortress were a large number of dilapidated and short thatched houses, and there were indeed many people in tattered clothes who looked like serfs. They were short, thin, and gray and black all over.

However, on the road directly opposite the fortress, there were horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians in formal attire, armed men in armor and carrying weapons, and even a few cavalrymen on horseback, or similar armed men. Although there were not many people coming and going, there were at least hundreds of people just as far as Wu Xianxiao could see. His arrival did not attract any onlookers or special attention, because there were more than a dozen people who looked similar to him, and some even looked more miserable than he did. They could only be hauled into the fortress on a large cart pulled by two horses.

Wu Xianxiao was tall and strong. Even though he looked extremely miserable, with his muscles atrophied and his fat almost exhausted, his skeleton was still there. When he walked to the front of the fortress, people around him looked at him with envy and respect. The four soldiers guarding the gate of the fortress did not stop him and let him walk into the fortress. At the same time, when he walked in, a soldier immediately waved to him. There were also a dozen people with the same miserable appearance going in the same direction. Wu Xianxiao did not care and followed them forward. He saw a small playground. The playground was full of people with broken weapons, tattered armor, and wounds all over their bodies, but none of them were as seriously injured as him.

After arriving at the playground, several people who looked like serfs soon brought a large black pot. Soldiers came forward and gave each person who had just arrived a full bowl of porridge, which looked green and gray. At the same time, each person also handed over a large pancake of the same black and gray color.

Although it looked disgusting, and was definitely dirty and unhygienic, Wu Xianxian didn't care about that. He was not a pretentious person. If there were good things to eat and the conditions to be particular, he would not hate fine food. If there were no good things to eat and no conditions to be particular, he could even eat grass roots. At this time, he was not polite and picked up the big bowl to drink all the porridge in one gulp, and then swallowed the big pancake in a few bites. Other people who had just arrived were even blowing air on the porridge, trying to cool it down before drinking it.

The soldier who was distributing food was stunned. He looked at the big pot with a little paste left, and saw the two remaining pancakes. He simply gave all the remaining paste to Wu Xianxun, and also gave him the two pancakes as well.

The wounded people around were all silent, eating their food, but they looked at Wu Xianxiao with envy in their eyes.

Wu Xianxiao was not polite either. He swallowed the porridge in one gulp, then tore into the pancake and chewed it. It took him no more than a minute to finish the whole thing.

From his observation, the tallest wounded soldier present was estimated to be only about 1.7 meters tall, and most of them were between 1.5 and 1.6 meters tall. Although they all had muscles and good physiques, their heights were not fake, and they were obviously born ordinary mortals. When he stood, he was more than 1.9 meters tall, at least two heads taller than the tallest person present, and he had broad shoulders and a large frame. Although he was covered in wounds and his muscles were atrophied, he still looked like a sturdy man.

As he finished all the food, he heard a sound similar to cheering not far away. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw several soldiers guarding a man who looked like an officer. The officer was wearing thick leather armor and had iron armor protecting his vital parts. He seemed to be eating as well, and seeing that Wu Xianxun was eating and drinking heartily and had a tall stature, he could not help but cheering out loud, and then he said a lot of chatter.

But Wu Xianxiao couldn't understand what he said at all. He just stood there and looked at him.

The officer was stunned for a moment, and a soldier next to him said something to him. He looked Wu Xianxian up and down, and saw a bird and a dog in the rags beside him. He nodded and spoke to the soldier next to him.

Not long after, a man in a grey linen robe came running over. He spoke to the officer for a few words, then recited something. He held a pair of wing-carved ornaments in his hands. Then light shone from his ornaments and body. After the light fell on Wu Xianxiao, the man said, "...it will last for three days and three nights. When the sun reaches the zenith on the fourth day, your knowledge of language will become ineffective."

After saying that, he turned around and ran towards a building behind him without caring about Wu Xianxiao's reaction.

The officer said from a distance: "Barbarian, let me ask you, how is your tribal army doing?"

Wu Xianxiao simply shook his head and said, "I don't know, I just came here."

The officer nodded, thought for a moment and said, "That's right. You barbarians have the least discipline, but you are quite brave in battle. Looking at your wounds, I can imagine the hard battles you have experienced...Okay, a good soldier deserves good treatment. I will ask the priest to treat you after evening prayer. I also know that you barbarians eat a lot. Your food ration will be tripled. If you have any merit in battle, it can be doubled."

After saying that, the officer picked up a piece of food that looked like a roasted chicken from his table and threw it towards Wu Xianxiao from a distance.

Wu Xianxiao caught it in mid-air, nodded slightly at the officer, then found an open space to sit down and began to eat the roast chicken with big mouthfuls.

After dusk, the priest who had performed the language skill for him before came again and chanted a bunch of incomprehensible spells to him. Then a white light fell on him, and streams of heat came out of nowhere and circulated in his flesh, blood and bones. He did not suppress anything, and the white light began to heal his flesh, blood and bones, and even his eyelids and lips began to heal and regrow on their own. The damaged skin on his body also grew back gradually, but it was not enough to heal all his injuries.

The priest was still in a hurry. After casting the healing magic, he turned around and left without caring whether Wu Xianxiao was cured or not, still heading towards the building that looked like a church or a sanctuary.

Wu Xianxiao remained silent, just sitting there, silently feeling his body healing. While treating the injuries of the three small animals, he listened carefully to the conversations among the wounded around him.

This world...seems to be in chaos everywhere.

However, this also allowed him to get away with it. It seemed that in this world there was a kind of human being called barbarians, who were tall enough, so the people in this world mistook him for a barbarian. It also seemed that the forces of this fortress were fighting on the front line, and this place was one of the supply points and transit stations. It would also accept small groups of wounded soldiers retreating from the front line, so his arrival did not arouse any suspicion.

(…What luck.)
After Wu Xianxiao treated the three little animals, he lay on the ground beside them and thought carefully about his next course of action.

(First, find out the situation clearly, then participate in the war as a barbarian, and win a certain amount of merit. At least I need a place to stay and enough food. Then I can consider other things after my strength recovers. Since I can get in, I must have a way out...)
(Level 5 Nightmare!)

I remember you!
(End of this chapter)