The mountain road is wet and slippery, making it very difficult to walk.
Moreover, the further east you go, the more unfallen curled leaves hang on the branches, almost blocking the white stars in the sky.
*
I followed at the back while chewing on the cool rabbit legs.
Along the way, Hearn questioned Benny repeatedly.
The giant shadow wolf Dilis couldn't help but growl lowly at the shambling skinny monkey, baring its teeth fiercely and salivating.
As long as Hearn's tone is slightly suspicious, it will bite him without hesitation.
At least twice, I saw dark liquid splashing out of the unfortunate man's thighs, and even heard the sound of cracking bones. The pain made him scream in pain, and he immediately changed his mind.
Deserve it.
I frowned secretly.
*
Through questioning, we finally learned a little bit about the flying troll.
Whenever the moon goes dark, he will appear with sacrifices with powerful souls.
He always asked the jungle troll tribe to bring this sacrifice to a place called the Blue Soul Altar to sacrifice, and it must be when the blue boy shines. Only in this way can he be revived or something. Every time he finished speaking, he would disperse with the wind.
Those words made me couldn't help but look at the sky.
In the gap between the branches and leaves, I saw Elune, whose eyebrows were like pushing open a door.
I remember that when she becomes rounder again, the blue child will light up the night sky.
I don't have much time left.
"...In other words, the flying troll is actually...a ghost?" Hearne asked with some uncertainty after walking in silence for a while.
"How do I know?!" Benny replied with a sneer, "You can try to die and see if you can fly! Ouch!"
"Next question," Hearn forcefully lifted the thin monkey in his hand so that he could straighten his bloody legs and move forward reluctantly, "How many people does he want to sacrifice? Answer carefully, otherwise, your meat will belong to Di Liz!"
"I don't know how many sacrifices I have to make! Oh! It's just, but something happened the last few times!"
His words made Hearn turn around and exchange a look with me.
How many times has something happened before?
Does this mean...Sarri is still alive?
It was precisely because Sari escaped that Darien became another of his prey! ?
So, where will Dallion be taken? !
"Where is the Blue Soul Altar?" Hearne asked again after thinking for a while.
"I told you I didn't know!"
"you said before?"
"Roar--" Dilys' fur flew up and she let out a low roar.
"Oh! I really don't know!" The limping thin monkey cried out in a cry, "I told you that I lost them in Yushugou!"
"Why are you following them?"
"I just……"
Benny's hesitation made Dilys growl threateningly again.
"Oh!" He jumped to Hearn's left hand side with a twisted look on his face, leaning to the left as hard as he could to distance himself from the growling Dilys, "I just want to follow them and pick up something valuable! "
"What valuables could those monsters have?"
After a pause, Benny reluctantly took out a radiant golden bottle from his lapel.
Seeing it, Hern suddenly stopped and successfully snatched it away due to the angry struggle of the thin monkey.
"You god-killing pirate! How could you steal my things?!"
"This is not yours, let's go!"
After all, Benny didn't dare to resist Dilys' threat, so he could only curse all the way.
The dark liquid also flowed down his trembling legs into the muddy water, emitting a fishy smell.
……etc.
etc!
Speaking of which, wasn't his leg bitten off? !
So, how did he jump away so quickly just now? ! Still jumping that far? So stable? !
Subconsciously, I squinted my eyes and looked at the thin monkey.
At that moment, I suddenly discovered something surprising!
Not long ago, his ears had clearly been pierced by Hearn!
However, now, the wound has slowly healed on its own!
Do you know what I mean? ? Through the starlight in the gaps between the branches and leaves, I clearly saw a pink film growing in his wound!
oh!
I followed him a few steps and got close to his ear.
When the skinny monkey saw this, he immediately jumped forward, and the dry flesh on his face was twisted into a ball defensively, "What do you want to do?!"
"Hearn!" I pointed at the squirming strips of meat on his ears and couldn't help shouting, "This guy... This guy isn't a human at all, is he?!"
"Oh!" Hearn grabbed Benny's back, forcing him to move his arms and walked crookedly back to the right, "Don't be afraid, Little Flame, this guy is indeed not a human being."
"My mother is a human being!" Benny said angrily.
"His father was a jungle troll. One day, he captured his mother, and then this bastard was born." As he spoke, Hearn spat to the side.
"So, his self-healing power is so amazing? Is it no different from those trolls?"
"Yes, he is just as bastard as those monsters..."
"I'm nothing like those retarded people. I'm much smarter..." Benny retorted loudly.
"What's the difference? Stealing crops, harming girls, killing travelers... When I caught him, he went around hunting giant wolves and collecting wolf hearts, for... for..."
"They forced me! That big jumper wants to cook a pot of magic soup!"
"Delia was in his cage at that time." When he said that, he suddenly pinched Benny's shoulders hard, making his bones crackle, "I have to thank you, asshole. !”
"Oh!! Ouch!!!" Benny grinned from ear to ear and screamed in a high voice.
*
The elm ditch is a ravine full of shadows. The cold wind screams sharply among the intertwined branches on both sides. The sound is like a ghost crying.
Hearn squinted his eyes and looked around, then threw Benny under the tree.
"Ouch!" The thin monkey immediately shrank into a ball.
"Dilys," Hearn patted the shadow wolf on the head, "Good girl, go find it."
Dilys whimpered lowly, turned around and jumped into the darkness.
*
I carefully avoided the puddles on the ground, jumped onto a large protruding rock, and looked down at the ravine below.
There was no deep flowing water inside, but instead it was covered with dead branches and mud.
Bursts of cold wind kept shaking the small snow flakes off the branches and leaves, and lifted up the stinky smell inside, which made me immediately cover my nose.
However, at that moment, in that pitch-black thing, I suddenly saw a blue glow. I thought I had seen it wrong, so I wiped my eyes and looked over again, and it was still there. There, swaying and looming!
"what is that?!"
"What?" Hearn turned his head, hurried to my side, and looked in the direction of my finger.
But at that moment, the halo disappeared out of thin air!
I couldn't help being shocked, "...it...it was just there!"
Hearn looked at it steadily and said, "Maybe it's a snowflake?"
"How can snowflakes be blue?! And also glow?!"
"Huh?" Hearn frowned.
We just looked at each other.
Shh--
Another gust of cold and biting wind screamed over our heads, and the sound of swaying branches came from far to near, shaking down the smoke-like snow and mist.
Then, in the same place just now, the blue glow appeared again!
"Look! Hearn!" I yelled.
"I saw it, Little Flame!" He took a few steps forward, knelt on the rock, and leaned over to take a closer look, "...that seems to be..."
Before he finished speaking, I felt a huge force hit my lower back. In an instant, I lost my center of gravity and fell into the elm ditch with Hearn beside me!
"Ouch!"
"Oh!" If I hadn't stretched out my hand immediately to support myself, I would have hit the ground face first!
However, a hard wooden stick still scratched my cheek, causing burning pain.
I looked back angrily and saw the skinny monkey standing where we were kneeling just now, with the right leg that was kicked out yet to be retracted.
When he received our glares, he grinned ferociously and said, "Go to hell!" He raised his hand and threw something with white smoke towards us. The choking smell made me immediately Senseless.
"Roar--" Faintly, I heard Dilys' low roar. The sound made the bastard in the ditch hiss, turn around and disappear.
*
"...little flame...little flame..."
It seemed like someone was calling me, one after another.
But the sound seemed to be across the water, muffled and mixed.
"...Hey! Wake up...Little Flame? Little Flame? Oh my God! Open your eyes! Little Flame! Hey!"
Slowly, his voice became clearer and clearer.
I felt a brush full of fine barbs brush hard against the left side of my face. The warm liquid remaining on my skin cooled quickly. I was so cold that I shuddered and opened my eyes suddenly. !
My vision went dark, and the big brush hit me hard on the right side of my face again, leaving only a fishy smell of saliva.
"Oh!" I sat up suddenly and took a deep breath. This time, I finally came back to my senses.
I saw the huge shadow wolf sticking out its steaming tongue and sitting upright in front of me.
...It...it's so big...it can bite half of my head off in one bite...
"...Thank you, Dilys!" I mustered up the courage to reach out to it, but at that moment, its originally erect ears flew back, and its sharp teeth were fully exposed, so I immediately put my hand away. Come back.
"Be friendly, Dilys." Hearn persuaded me with a smile. As he said that, he helped me up hard.
Standing in the ditch, I realized that the ravine was not deep. As long as I tiptoed slightly on the soft ground, I could see the endless cold and dim mountain forest outside.
"...That bastard escaped?!" I patted the muddy water on my body angrily, and the memory in my mind made me grit my teeth in annoyance.
"Next time, he won't be able to escape anymore." As he said that, he took off the feather arrow from his back and looked around. Finally, his eyes returned to my face. "Little Flame, go to the side. A few steps.”
I saw him nocking an arrow, drawing the bow, and loosening the string!
The arrows flew straight towards the sky with a crisp scream, smashing all the branches and dead leaves that were frozen by the ice and snow along the way. Suddenly, a bright starlight fell down along with the scattered debris. However, when it landed on the ground, it turned into a blue glow!
"Oh!" I immediately squatted down, thought for a while, and reached out to touch it. However, as soon as my hand covered the starlight, the blue sparkling fire disappeared. When I took it away, Palm, it appears again!
"On the ground?!" I covered the starlight and looked carefully, but there was only ordinary mud and water on the ground. "What's going on?!"
"...Little Flame?"
"Huh?" I turned around.
Hearne was seen holding a long bow, with a look of disbelief on his face, "You...really don't know what this is?"
His words made me extremely confused, "Should I know this? No, the important thing is, do you know what this is?!"
He pondered for a moment, "...This is a very rare pigment. It only displays color under starlight. Those great painters use it to...well, make their paintings more...well, valuable."
"...So? Why do I need to know about this...pigment?"
Hearn opened his mouth silently, his brows knitted together. After a long while, he sighed and put the bow and arrow back on his shoulder, "...if Mr. Abners hadn't told me again and again, I would never have believed it. You are the unmarried wife of young Master Gregor..."
"I'm not!" I jumped up angrily and waved my fist at him, "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will beat you!"
"Oh!" He took a big step back exaggeratedly, and the next second, he laughed, "I'm so sorry, Little Flame, I promise never to mention it again." He raised his hands with a smile and made a stop gesture to me. , his tone darkened, "I mean, around here, in the entire Agamand Manor, including the surrounding villages, and even Dalaran, no one has this kind of paint, except for Young Master Gregor."
"……What?!"
