I seemed to hear some sound of breaking wind.
I seemed to hear someone scream.
I seemed to smell the sweet taste of blood.
But none of that mattered anymore. What mattered was that I watched the necklace fall into the cold lake with its crystal light, and it even splashed a complicated "purple lotus".
No!
I rushed down the shore, and suddenly the cold lake water filled my boots.
But I was still a step too late, and watched them sinking to the bottom of the transparent lake.
The yellow gemstone has been glowing faintly, just like that day when Selin fell helplessly in the evil fire.
*
"Alive... alive! Ugh!!" He threw his head back and screamed, his hair burning like strands of fire. Then, his body was ignited and torn into ashes by the dazzling fire!
*
No!
No! !
For a moment, everything was lost in my ears.
I only heard the sound of fierce fire and painful wails.
I plunged into the ice water and rushed towards the necklace, even though the ice edge cut my cheek like a knife and pierced my chest and lungs.
However, I still can't reach it!
It slipped away from my frozen fingertips, like a sail in the sea, getting farther and farther away from me, so far away that I could no longer see it!
No!
No! !
I dove into deeper water.
*
If it weren't for a pair of strong hands grabbing my waist and dragging me up from the water, I think I would have drowned in this deep lake.
"...Ahem..." I knelt on the gravel ground, and the cold and biting water kept sawing back and forth in my throat, making me almost cough up blood.
"You will freeze to death!" Someone shouted in front of me, his voice slightly distorted.
The starlight was very bright, and I saw that his head was full of water, one by one falling from his green eyes.
"Little flame? Little flame?!" He patted my cheek hard with his leather-gloved palm, his hard arms trembling, "Oh my god, it's too cold!"
Finally, I regained some consciousness, and there was a dull pain in my cheek.
Then, it was cold.
I just felt like my whole body was frozen, and my fingernails and the tips of my ears seemed to be bleeding!
"...Hearn..." I stared at the person in front of me, and as soon as I made a sound, I couldn't hold it back any longer, holding his sleeves and crying loudly.
I don't like to cry at all, but at this moment, God knows what happened, my emotions were like a flood of collapse, uncontrollable.
I cried until the sky was dark and the earth was dark, and I couldn't breathe.
"...Oh my God, Little Flame...Little Flame...What's wrong with you?" Hearn took off his gloves and wiped my eyes, but I couldn't hold back my tears, and my face was soaked in the blink of an eye.
"It's... it's the last thing that Selin gave me..." I burst into tears, "... I must... I must..."
"Okay, okay, you want your necklace, I know." Hearn gently opened my tightly clenched fingers and pulled back his cuffs, "You tell me what you want, and I will Can help you get it.”
"But, it...it fell to the bottom of the water...it...it didn't...disappear..."
"Oh, I grew up in a fishing village in Kul Tiras. They all call me 'The Ray of the Endless Sea'." He smiled and exhaled, and then quickly took off his wet clothes. I put the cotton coat on my shoulders, thought about it, and took out some scraps of wood from my luggage, and lit a small campfire like magic, "Lydia will accompany you, You just stay here, got it?" He stood up and took a few steps back in the shallow water, then turned around and jumped into the rippling silver water.
Wow--
"Hearn?!" I struggled to crawl towards him, until a huge black shadow suddenly appeared out of thin air and blocked my eyes, "Oh!"
"Roar--" The huge shadow roared at me, its glowing green eyes like two swaying will-o'-the-wisps!
It is clearly Hearne's giant shadow wolf!
I saw it turning its shiny black fur upside down, hunching its back, and approaching me step by step. In the end, those sharp teeth almost touched the tip of my nose!
"Li...Lydia?" I stared at its pupils that shrank into needles, not daring to express my anger.
"Roar!" When I called it, it yelled at me even more fiercely, suddenly rushed forward, and hit my nose hard with its head!
boom--
"Oh!" I almost fell over backwards, and the severe pain in my nose made me burst into tears.
Snapped--
Something dripped onto my clothes, with a sweet smell. I wiped it slightly subconsciously, and then I saw the deep marks on my fingertips.
Damn it! Damn beast!
In front of my hazy eyes, I saw the giant wolf seeming to smile triumphantly.
It stuck out its tongue and licked my face hard. The smell of saliva emitted from my face.
Then, it raised its chin arrogantly, turned around and faced the ice lake, and sat down upright. But I just wanted to kick it down.
*
Time seems to fly by.
Time seemed to pass very slowly again.
This lake is quiet, with only countless silver lines rising and falling quietly in the lake.
Afterwards, those silver threads seemed to solidify in the cold.
too long.
Why hasn't Hearn, who calls himself the Ray of the Endless Sea, come up yet?
Could he have sunk to the bottom because he was too cold? !
Will there be animals in the lake that attack humans? ! Toothfish? !
Holy light! Could he have been eaten? !
I...I killed him? !
The exciting scenes in my mind made me tighten my cotton-padded clothes that were stiff from the cold, and quickly moved to Lidya's side.
It was obvious that the wolf was also worried about his master. He kept baring his teeth, stretched his head and let out a low growl towards the water.
"We have to save him!" I stared at the dark lake and stood up with great effort. The biting coldness made me tremble several times. "The rays in the Endless Sea are going to drown!"
Before I finished speaking, a huge wave suddenly rose on the lake not far away, and the cold water droplets drenched my head and face like a heavy rain.
"oh!"
"Roar!" The giant wolf next to me twisted its butt and knocked me into the shallow water. He jumped up with cheerful steps, jumping around the wet and dripping figure.
"...Oh...Lydia...hiss...don't make trouble...quickly...come ashore..."
It's Hearn!
He dragged a trail of dark liquid to me, and then put a bunch of cold things in my palm, "That's them... hiss... my God... right, right?" He said He was frozen, his voice was shaking, and his teeth were chattering.
I rushed over and hugged him, "Thank you! I don't even know how to thank you!"
"Oh..." He breathed cold breath into my ear, "This is really... such a beautiful thank you..."
My cheeks felt hot, and I endured it. I pushed the cold and hard cotton coat into his chest with my backhand, "Put it on! Come here! You must come to the fire to keep warm, otherwise, you will get sick!" "
*
The orange flame kept swaying in the cold wind, occasionally splashing out crackling sparks.
The heat waves came one after another, and finally, Hearn's almost frozen cheeks relaxed, and just like his hair, which was stiff and straight from the cold, began to flow vividly.
He opened his eyes which had been closed.
Behind the faint white steam, I found that his eyes were shining like stars in the sky.
Seeing me staring at him for a moment, he curled up his lips and said, "Oh, little flame..."
"Don't call me Little Flame, Hearn!" I protested dissatisfied, "I have a name, my name is Messiah Rubio, and I allow you to call me by my name."
"My pleasure," he breathed into his hands, looked at me again and smiled, "little flame."
I opened my mouth, but when my eyes touched his sparkling pupils, I still sighed helplessly.
"Look, I helped you, now, maybe you can help me?"
*
I followed Hearn back to his territory.
He and the patrolling soldiers all lived in a row of dark houses between the shanties and the castle. There seemed to be a stable behind the house, which stank even in such an icy cold night. I can't imagine how pungent the smell would be if it was midsummer.
I got dry cotton clothes and trousers, which Hearn dug out from the bottom of the box. They were a little old, but quite clean.
It wasn't until I fastened the frayed cuffs tightly around my cold and unconscious wrists that I realized that these clothes were not only light but also very large, and Hearn looked quite thin.
Under the guidance of a not-so-kind soldier, I spiraled down the smelly stairs to the basement.
Here, the dim and choking oil lamp is the only source of light.
"Here! There he is!" Before leaving, the soldier pouted forward and glanced fiercely at my neck. I swear, if he dared to look at me a second time, his nose would be broken. Will break.
Pushing open the ajar door, I immediately saw Hearn walking towards the wall. He seemed to have just arrived and was adjusting his cuffs and belt, taking his time.
Without the cover of the leather armor and cloak, I discovered for the first time that this guy was actually very strong, especially his arms, which almost broke the white cotton coat.
Vivian was tied to the cross behind the wooden platform with iron ropes. Her hair was messy, as if she had been beaten, and there was a large bruise on the corner of her mouth.
Oh, don't tell me that's Hearn's work.
Thinking of that, I couldn't help but glance at Hearn. The Sheriff immediately caught my gaze and raised his eyebrows at me.
I immediately looked away, and the corner of my eye told me that the walls here were covered with iron rods, and each one looked unpleasant.
"Close the door, little flame," Hearn's smiling voice came over, "Yes, look, only in this way can the Silent Barrier operate."
Vivian had been staring at me sinisterly, and at the third second, I glared at her fiercely.
After meeting my gaze, she couldn't help but sigh, bitterly and unwillingly, "So, now you are working hard for this face..."
"Don't do this, my girl," Hearn interrupted her with a smile and shook her index finger, "I warned you, leave the manor."
"But you know, we can't leave!" Vivian gritted her teeth and said angrily. She suddenly tugged on the chain, making a sharp metal collision sound, but it was just a loud noise, but it pulled her wrist out. A blood-red trace.
"Old Lear is sick! Anna's leg is not healed yet! We need money!" She continued viciously, "Defulin took away all the food we had left for the winter! We need money to buy potatoes! We need money Buy cotton clothes! We need money to survive! Even if we leave, we still need money to buy a car! And these rich people..." As she said, she glared at me, "I just took some trivial things from them. , I’m not wrong at all!” She pulled the iron rope on her wrist again, and stretched her body towards Hearn, “Let me go! Yannis! Just like before!”
Hearn just looked at her with a smile, his pupils shining brightly under the light of the oil lamp, "Vivian, I should tell you that your crappy mind control magic is of no use to me."
mind control?
magic?
oh! This waitress is actually a magician? !
I couldn't help but think of what Dallion said to her at that time.
*
"I am a Holy Light Priest, Miss Vivian."
*
Could it be that she was still trying to control Dallion at that time?
Of course, regardless of whether she was a magician or not, at this moment, she became panicked. "Let me go! Yannis! I will thank you! Just use your favorite way!" she said anxiously. , "You can do whatever you want! I don't believe you forgot about me so quickly and we had such a good time! Don't do it because of her...she is just a little girl, she doesn't know how to please you at all!"
"Oh, is your understanding of me a little biased?" Hearn said with a smile, "I only do what I love to do, and only this kind of thing can please me. As for Little Flame..." He turned to him with a smile. asked me, "Who is a little girl? I have already seen the little cherry between her eyebrows."
oh! I just can't listen anymore!
Angrily, I grabbed the iron pliers on the wooden table and knocked it hard, "Don't say these dirty things in front of me! I don't want to care about what you are going to do in a while... Well, have fun! Before that, you You must answer a few questions from me first!”
Hearn shrugged and made a gesture of invitation to me.
Vivian was stunned for a moment, and the next second, she suddenly stared at me, "You... what did you say? What happened before that?" As she said that, she looked at Hearn suddenly, "You... actually, You're going to let me go, aren't you? Yannis?! I knew it..." She almost laughed out loud at the end.
Bang bang bang--
I knocked on the table hard again, "Where's Surrey?"
Suddenly, the room fell silent.
