I really regret that I didn't study the books of Holy Light and Shadow, and I really regret that I don't know much about medicine.
There was nothing I could do except give Dallion a bottle of healing potion that tasted disgusting, and Lafayette, I didn't even dare to feed him the potion.
Fortunately, they both fell into a deep sleep, and their breathing became much more even.
Gilly lit a fire in the center of the room, making the room that was shaking in the cold wind much warmer and brighter. Only then did I discover that there were many lines carved on the floor of the cold room, one of which I recognized that it was a simple heating circle, and there were more crooked lines beside the circle.
"It was carved by Lafayette." As if she noticed my gaze, Gilly, who had been sitting next to Lafayette, whispered. When she saw me looking up at her, she slightly lowered her dark eyes, "I'm sorry. I'm just... I'm just too worried about my brother... He was originally a good boy, but as soon as he came back from Dalaran, he was called a lackey of the orcs?" As she spoke, she covered her mouth, but failed to stop it. The first cry.
My mood was not beautiful either, but I didn’t want to cry with her. “Since he can draw magic circles, why not use them? That heating magic circle, the one over there that should be a lighting magic circle, and the two in the corner. ...they are always useful."
"We don't have rune stones, miss, and we can't even afford the cheapest ones," Gilly said softly, staring at the crackling flames, with endless sadness in her tone, "and Lafayette doesn't know how to use magic at all. These things are just decorations. If I had known this would happen, I should have let him farm here and feed the horses...at least...at least he wouldn't be as desperate as he is now..."
Her words reminded me of the Lafayette I met for the first time. He was smart and clever, and his talent in magic circles even impressed Wendell's weird temper. He also unintentionally helped the gang of gangsters. The orcs completed the magic circle to summon the undead and let such a child farm? To feed the horses? What a sin.
However, Selin is right. I feel sorry for him, but there is nothing I can do about it.
*
The room was a little depressing. I stood up with difficulty and walked outside the dark door. They didn't have anything to eat. Maybe I should go to the woods to trap a hare to satisfy my hunger.
At that moment, I suddenly heard the sound of a bunch of horse hooves, and the dark carriage drove all the way to me, "Hey--"
"Miss Messiah!" Ryder shouted at me with the whip in his hand, very proudly, "I got you some dinner! There's bread, apple juice, and roast chicken!" He stepped out of the car. Jumping down, he said loudly, "Oh! I also got a thick mattress! It's so thick that it won't be cold!"
"Oh!" I seemed to understand why Ryder left in a hurry. "You are really capable, Ryder!" Those words were extremely heartfelt. "But didn't that Dom not let us enter the town? He Blind? Can't you recognize our carriage?"
"Oh! As long as there are gold coins, everything in 'Antlers' is for sale." Unexpectedly, I heard a laughing voice, and that voice was very unfamiliar. The next second, a man jumped out of the car. He was tall and his hair was meticulously combed. Even though his hands were full of things, he did not forget to bend over and salute me. Then, he turned his head and looked at the people in front of him. Wooden house, "Excuse me, are you sending things in?"
"That's right! Thank you, Liam!"
"What you say is what I want."
Ryder also took out a thick mattress from the carriage and followed Liam into the cabin, "Come in quickly, Miss Messiah! It's so cold outside! Speaking of which, young Master Dallion! I must stay with you Talk about it! I just saw it in the town..." Before he could finish his words, he turned into an exclamation, "Oh my God! Young Master! What's wrong with you?!"
*
After hearing what I said about everything that happened here, Ryder looked at the Lafayette siblings with hostile eyes, especially after Liam whispered to him, he even said, "I want to move the young master." Get back in the carriage! You have to come with us! Miss Messiah!"
"Yes, but it's very cold outside..." It seemed like Gilly wanted to give some advice, but with a look from Ryder, she shut her mouth.
"Ryder, are we going to live in the heavy snow?" As I said that, I couldn't help but glare at Liam. He must be up to something, right? !
"There is a heating circle on the carriage. Miss, apart from being a little crowded, nothing is better than here!" Ryder directly moved the mattress he had just moved in out. When he walked to the door, he looked back. The pair of brothers and sisters in thin clothes hesitated for a moment, but still told Liam, "Don't move your mattress, we don't need it!" After saying that, he looked at me again, "You must go with us! You must. !”
oh! I have never seen Ryder so powerful!
*
The carriage was tied up in the woods a few hundred meters away. To be honest, the space in the carriage was not large. After Dallion was settled, it was too small for the few of us, but I couldn't propose to move it. Liam throws it out of the carriage, right?
"We take turns keeping vigil." Ryder said, scratching his hair in distress, "I'll do it in the first half of the night, Liam, and you in the second half of the night, the young master will pay."
"Then, no problem." Liam replied with a smile.
*
"You just said that as long as there are gold coins, you will sell anything?" I leaned in the corner, gnawing on the chicken legs, and asked the waiter of "Antlers".
Hearing this, Liam stopped arranging his hair and said, "That's right, miss, as long as we have it." As he said that, he thoughtfully handed over the steaming apple juice with a smile.
"Thank you. You see, we need a doctor."
Liam looked at Dallion with a smile on his face, "That noble young master is just extremely tired. He will wake up after a night's rest."
"Stop laughing, otherwise, I won't be able to help but beat you."
"Uh." Liam was stunned, and the fake smile on his face finally faded away, but his eyes were still narrowed into a curved slit.
"Can't you open your eyes?"
"Uh..." Liam looked embarrassed and pointed to his right eye innocently, "My eyes are only so big. If you don't believe me, you can come closer and take a look."
"...Okay, then...if you're a doctor, go see the kid in the house."
"He is cursed, right?" After a pause, Liam said softly, "I can see the black energy on his body."
That sentence made my heart skip a beat, and I immediately pressed the cup in my hand, "Can it be cured? I will pay you."
Liam raised his lips slightly, "Not all curses can be cured with magic. Some have to be dispelled with medicine, miss. However, curses will be infinitely amplified in the dark night, and will become more serious in the sunny noon. Suppressed by light. Therefore, even if I can cure it, I will not choose to go there now."
"So, you told Ryder this?"
"Yes, I told Mr. Ryder. I have to be responsible for...the life of my employer." As he said this, he smiled again, but he quickly wiped it away.
Who doesn’t know that he is actually responsible for the gold coins?
I took a sip of the apple juice, and the sweet taste made me almost spit it out, "Oh...then what will happen to them, I mean the siblings?"
"Who knows?" Liam enthusiastically handed over a glass of water, "If I were you, I would have a good sleep. Look, your beautiful face looks a little bad."
*
I was awakened by the sound of slight footsteps. It seemed to be late at night, because Ryder was sleeping soundly on the car opposite me.
rustle--
Footsteps were heard on the gravel outside, and for a moment, I felt my instinctive sense of crisis scream.
The one outside shouldn't be Liam, because Liam only has one pair of feet, and there seem to be several people outside!
Almost at the same time, I smelled an extremely cool fragrance. The smell made me sit up straight and cover my nose hard.
I recognize that smell and I remember it so well!
That's the smell of ghost mushrooms. When I was still in Rubio Manor, I once saw this rare herb at the alchemist Alexander's place. I remember that at that time, the evil-minded bald man put the powder of ghost mushrooms in my nose. After putting it in front of me, I suddenly lost consciousness and saw many inexplicable hallucinations.
Afterwards, Jovan told me that I spent an afternoon rowing in the gravel field behind the alchemy hut. From then on, Alexander and I were inseparable. Well, actually, it was me who didn't want to see Alexander unilaterally, and he didn't take me seriously at all.
Of course, these are no longer important. What is important is that on such a dark night, someone blew ghost mushroom powder into the car.
I can't think of anyone other than the Bandits who would do this. It seems that our night watchman Liam has been brought down.
Squeaky--
The door of the carriage was opened from the outside. I immediately closed my eyes and pretended to faint.
Through the slit of my eyelids, I saw a dark figure squeezing in carrying a magic lamp as big as a bean. He was a big man and made the carriage shake when he got on.
"Aha! I saw their money bags!" He bent down, walked all the way to Ryder, and took off the bag from his waist and threw it out.
"Oh! What a great man!" Someone outside exclaimed, "Is there anyone else? Joshua?"
They didn't seem to be afraid of waking anyone up at all, and they kept their voices as loud as they wanted.
The big man named Joshua rummaged through Ryder's pocket, then rummaged through Dallion's body, and then threw away the daggers and iron swords they were carrying. He did not touch the ones in Dallion's hands. The ring, because it was dark, looked like a piece of worthless fine iron.
Then, he looked at me, and I immediately closed my eyes tightly, not even daring to look over his shoulder.
"Black Shadow" has repeatedly emphasized that when you look directly at another person, that person can feel your gaze.
"Oh! I saw a beautiful kitten." His voice was teasing, and I felt a cold-gloved hand pinch my chin, "The red hair, she reminds me of Eileen! Hey! Old Dodd! She looks so much like Erin!"
"Oh! Eileen! All Rhea with swollen breasts can remind you of Eileen." The person outside laughed, and then he slammed the car hard, "Unless you can finish it in half a minute. , otherwise you should hurry up and say goodbye to your dear Eileen!"
"Bye to hell!" Joshua spat in disgust and slapped my face again, "Poor Rhea, let me kindly send you off the cliff. It's better than being dragged into hell." Then, he He turned around and jumped out of the car door.
With a crisp crack of the whip, the carriage started to move. It ran faster and faster. In the end, it seemed like it was running for its life!
I immediately jumped up from the corner. What did they just say? ! Is there a cliff ahead? !
I gritted my teeth and pushed open the car door. I saw the dark woods on both sides receding quickly from the corner of my eyes, and the sound of the cold wind was particularly sharp.
I forcefully dragged Ryder out of the corner of the carriage and pushed him out of the carriage. Then, I started to deal with the big guy Dallion!
He is so heavy, so heavy that I can hardly lift him!
"Darian!" I hugged him from behind and dragged him back with all my strength, "Are you a bear!"
One inch, another inch! I finally dragged him to the door!
Suddenly, the carriage began to shake violently. At that moment, I found that it rushed out of the woods, and the dense cliff was just a few meters away!
"No no no no!" I stared over there and almost shouted!
In an instant, I pushed my right foot hard. Although it made me feel bone-breaking pain, it also saved our lives!
With a bang, Dallion and I fell into the pile of rocks next to us. The inertia took us rolling inside countless times before we stopped.
Oh, I just felt that my arms and thighs were sore from being rubbed by stones, and my face was also the same. The only good thing is that those stones did not touch my left foot.
"Oh..." I lay on the cold ground and gasped for air. After a long time, I looked away from the starry sky and sat up with the dull pain all over my body.
The cliff was only five meters away from me. I climbed over and took a look. It was so dark below that I had no idea how high it was.
Dallion was lying next to me. His forehead seemed to be injured. It was covered with dark liquid and exuded a faint smell of blood. I found a bandage in my personal luggage, carefully bandaged him, and then I dragged him to a tree with great effort.
After doing that, I just felt out of breath, and my eyes turned black from exhaustion.
At that moment, I suddenly felt the whole forest shake. I don't mean ordinary vibrations, but vibrations of space and time, with overlapping afterimages.
In an instant, the blue boy who was still shining brightly in the sky disappeared, and the surrounding area became as dark as ink.
what happened? !
I subconsciously hugged Dallion's arm, but I didn't expect that action to make Dallion groan slightly, and then I heard his breathing stop for half a beat.
"Dallion." I called him softly.
His whole body tensed up, "Messiah?" I felt his hand covering the back of my hand, "What's going on?! I can't seem to see..." He stopped before he finished speaking, because , on the other side of the woods, a purple-black shadow light suddenly lit up. The light pulsed like a heart, and then spread rapidly. In an instant, it enveloped us and the originally dark woods, and then, Its edge just looms over the cliff.
We looked at each other, and I saw unconcealable surprise in his eyes, and he must have seen this in mine as well.
"What is that?" After a pause, I jumped over and stretched out my hand towards the thing on the layer. Incredibly, the thing actually flashed with lightning. For a moment, I felt as if my hand was being touched. Thunder and lightning struck, "Oh!" The sharp stinging pain from my fingertips made me withdraw my hand suddenly.
"Don't touch it, Messiah, that's the barrier." He struggled to stand up from the ground, and at that moment, another purple light lit up at the other end of the woods, like a purple sun. flash.
I looked over there blankly, "What is that?"
"Let's go take a look," Dallion said softly after frowning for a while, "That's the home of Lafayette and Gilly."
