Knights Don't Need a Youthful Romance Story

"There isn't much food left in the village."

Sitting on a somewhat worn-out wooden chair, the village chief stared silently at the account books on the table.

This year's grain harvest is very poor. The crops were not growing well to begin with, and then they were hit by a pest infestation.

Food is running low in the village.

As the village chief, he has a responsibility to find a way out for the village.

As for buying it outside, he hadn't considered it.

In the village, besides the village chief, there was also a man with a worried expression.

He told others that his son and daughter were missing.

Two days ago, his son and daughter went into the forest and never came back.

Please accept my condolences; this is not your fault.

"Yes, who would have thought those two honest kids would do something like this?"

"The forest is so dangerous, how could they just run in like that?"

The villagers surrounded the man, chattering amongst themselves.

A woman with her arms crossed stood beside the man, watching everything with a cold eye.

She is the man's new wife.

As a stepmother, this woman was not kind to the two children.

They even find it extremely distasteful.

Because these two children will definitely compete with her children for the inheritance in the future.

She thinks so.

She showed remarkable restraint by not expressing any joy at the fact that her two children were missing.

As for why not go look for it?

As others have said, the forest is too dangerous to go in, and this is a consensus among almost everyone in the town.

Even the most experienced person would not venture deep into the forest.

Luo Zhen and the little knight, who were not far away, watched this scene without giving any comment.

They didn't see any children on their way here.

Luo Zhen didn't even try to talk to the child or help find him.

His top priority now is to figure out what exactly happened here and find out who's behind it all.

As for the children, it would be good if they were still alive when he finds the murderer.

He would be powerless to help if he were to pass away.

It may sound cold-blooded, but that's the truth.

Everything has a priority.

"Nothing particularly suspicious has been found so far."

Luo Zhen tapped away on his phone, recording all the suspicious details he had noticed.

Including this father who lost his two children.

Instead of searching for the lost child, the parents sat at the doorway, looking distressed and sighing.

To be honest, the acting was a bit fake.

Luo Zhen has seen many fathers who abandon their children for various reasons.

Generally, even after the child is found, Luo Zhen would not suggest that the child return to the other party's side.

One has two.

He helped find it this time, but what about next time?

As he turned around, something seemed to flash through Luo Zhen's mind.

However, when he tried to recall it carefully, he couldn't remember anything.

With the disguised little knight in tow, Luo Zhen circled around to the place where the lake should have been.

There are no beautiful lakes here now, only a stagnant pool.

A large number of insect corpses were floating on the water's surface.

Logically, the corpses of these insects should be eaten by the fish in the lake.

But the fish in the lake seemed to have disappeared.

The entire lake remained completely still.

"strangeness."

Luo Zhen and the little knight, standing by the lake, were both puzzled by the situation.

The tin man standing outside the village was equally puzzled.

Looking at the town, the Tin Man felt that something was wrong.

It's as if this town shouldn't be like this.

From the villagers' conversations, it learned that there must have just been a pest infestation here.

But it didn't find a trace of insects along the way.

The entire forest was as if there were no insects at all.

But normally this is impossible.

As for the dangerous forest that the villagers described.

The Tin Man looked back and realized that he came from that place.

But it didn't find anything dangerous.

If I had to say something, it would be that the flowers in the forest all smelled too sweet.

It's so sweet it's uncomfortable.

There seems to be nothing else besides that.

"But the most important thing now is..."

The eyes, originally meant for decoration, seemed to have come to life, and one could almost see the emotions of a living being in them.

Greed is spreading.

It wants a fresh heart.

Although the heart in its chest is still beating strongly, it still longs for a new heart.

The moment a fresh heart is inserted into the chest.

The warm torrent swallowed it up in an instant.

At that moment, it felt like the happiest life in the world.

Even if its continuation requires harming other people's lives.

But so what?

It doesn't care about any of that.

It scanned the villagers back and forth, selecting a satisfactory target.

No, elderly people and children.

The old man's heart was no longer very strong, and the child's heart was too small to provide enough warmth.

Ultimately, it fixed its gaze on the man's new wife.

This person's heart should give it a very different feeling.

Meanwhile, Luo Zhen and the little knight temporarily left the town.

They planned to search deeper into the forest.

The previous search in the town yielded nothing.

Due to the influence of an unknown force, Joseph's Hermit Purple was also unable to effectively explore the situation here.

"This smell."

With a slight twitch of his nose, Luo Zhen sensed an unusual aura in the air.

This is something I didn't smell on the way here.

It has a syrup-like taste.

Just by smelling it, Luo Zhen could imagine the golden syrup.

However, the flavor is a bit too rich.

Rubbing his nose, Luo Zhen took out the photo from his pocket.

The investigator was encased in a resin-like substance.

"Looks like this is the syrup."

After putting the photo back in his pocket, Luo Zhen and the little knight headed deeper into the forest.

At the same time, the Tin Man found a golden opportunity.

The man went out and no one knows where he went, while the woman was alone outside feeding the pigs.

Watching the woman's busy figure, the Tin Man walked past silently.

With his back to the sun, he raised the iron axe in his hand high.

The woman, noticing something amiss in the shadows on the ground, instinctively turned around, but the Tin Man's axe had already come crashing down.

The sharp axe slashed diagonally into the woman's neck.

However, what flowed from the wound was not bright red blood.

Tiny specks of golden liquid flowed from the wound.

The cloying sweetness wafted through the air, making the tin man smell it.

Chapter 301 A Sweet Hell and a Sun-like Knight

For the sake of fresh hearts, the Tin Man hunted countless humans.

That's right, it's hunting.

In its eyes, humans and wild beasts are no different.

Oh no, humans can provide it with a fresh heart.

Ever since it realized that human hearts could make it feel warm, it has become addicted to hunting humans in search of fresh hearts.

Over time, it has also developed its own set of hunting tips.

This includes how to strike in a way that ensures a fatal blow without damaging the heart.

Although beheading is the simplest method, it is still preferable to cut diagonally from below the human's neck and then slash down toward the chest for easier removal later.

It was already familiar with the feel of a sharp axe cutting into flesh.

But this time, the axe did not produce the familiar sensation.

Golden, viscous liquid slowly oozed from the wound inflicted by the axe.

A cloyingly sweet smell lingered in the air.

Several poultry stood not far away, quietly watching this scene unfold.

The food the woman had fed them earlier was right at their feet, but the poultry remained unmoved.

Upon witnessing this scene, they did not scream in terror, nor did they become agitated out of fear.

Realizing something was wrong, the Tin Man instinctively tried to pull out his axe, but the resistance from the handle prevented him from doing so.