(Thanks to Ling, who likes assassin bugs, and Yuwen Hao for their donations. Bonus chapter 1/5)
After that, Li Qinwu passed through many more eras and historic cities.
Watching the people living outside the window in different eras, as well as the vastly different styles of the cities, Li Qinwu grew even more puzzled. He kept feeling that these people were not acting; they were truly living according to the ways of their respective times!
It was not until they reached the Dark Middle Ages, around the fifteenth century—the era when the Witch Hunts were at their most rampant—that Li Qinwu suddenly realized something was wrong!
Outside the window, he saw Trier, a city of the Holy Roman Empire.
Around the fifteenth century, the Little Ice Age was in full swing. Temperatures had plummeted sharply, food production had collapsed, and all manner of social problems were everywhere.
In the east, the Ming Dynasty had seen countless peasant uprisings, indirectly leading to the fall of the last Han Chinese feudal dynasty.
Meanwhile, Witch Hunts ran rampant across western Europe!
In Trier, this German city, the public environment was appalling. Puddles and excrement could be seen everywhere on the roads, while rats and all kinds of insects scurried about.
Stone houses lined the streets as raggedly dressed peasants walked through them, gradually gathering in a square paved with stone slabs.
At the center of the square stood a stake. The pyre had already been piled up, and tied to the stake was a village woman who looked nearly sixty or seventy years old.
The village woman wailed at the top of her lungs, her face twisted with terror.
Beside the stake stood a priest, announcing the village woman's judgment to the several thousand townspeople gathering in the square.
"Magdalena! Despicable country witch!