messenger from the wasteland

Chapter 28 This is a never-ending road

It was the blood-red sky again, and it was raining densely, and the rain flowed over the silent corpse.

The wasteland is empty.

In this empty dead silence, a cloud of black mist suddenly appeared, condensed, and gradually formed a human body.

Wearing a black robe at the beginning, as the black mist dissipated, he opened his eyes.

After the mission was over, she returned here, the Wasteland of the Apostles.

She put her hands on her face and stared blankly ahead.

What was she thinking, she was thinking about things before the mission was over.

Before she returned here, Hillman left her a gift, a shallow kiss.This made Chu very puzzled, because there seemed to be an emotion in her heart that hadn't appeared for a long time.

Is it the sadness of parting, or something else, it's a bit complicated, and she doesn't understand it all.

However, she will take good care of this gift as required.

Putting down his hands, looking at the "scenery" in front of him, he found a place and sat down in silence.

Not a single living thing, no one to talk to her.

She just sat quietly with her eyes closed.

For her, it's both a rest and a wait.

Waiting for her next mission, waiting for the next evil she wants to collect.

It was a long wait, and no one knew when the voice would notice her.

Maybe after waking up from sleep, the voice sounded from above her again.

"Welcome back, apostle, congratulations on completing this mission. Now that you have a responsibility, do you need to strengthen your body?"

"Strengthen?" Hearing this voice for the first time, he slowly looked towards the sky.

"Yes." The voice explained: "Consuming guilt can increase the body's ability, or increase the upper limit of one's own evil."

"Hmm..." After thinking for a while, Chu said, "You can assign it as you like."

"Ok."

After the voice finished speaking, Chu Chu clearly felt that her body had been strengthened again. This obvious growth made her a little uncomfortable, and at the same time, the existence called evil in her body also grew partly.

It was only a small part, but even so, Chu could still feel that she had become more numb, and she had even gradually begun to lose her sense of touch.

Thinking about it, at most a few more such reinforcements, she would completely lose her sense of touch.After losing the sense of touch, it may be the sense of smell, taste, hearing, and vision.

Of course, Chu didn't take these things to heart. Even if she lost her five senses, she could still use evil to judge the location and direction, which would not affect her completion of the task.

As long as it can complete the task, it's fine, isn't it?
But in that case, could she still keep Hillman's gift well?
She has no answer.

"Are you ready for the next mission?" the voice asked.

Chu didn't make a sound, and nodded his head as an answer.

"Very well, the next task has been determined, collect the evil of "hatred". Do you want to rest for a while, or start immediately?"

"lets go."

While waiting, she had been resting for a long time.

She needs a mission, the mission can make her feel her own existence, not the same as the corpse here.

Standing up at the beginning, the black robe on his body fluctuated like the surface of water, and the blood stained on the corpse was shaken off.This robe was made by her from deterioration, and it has the ability of self-purification. Similarly, it will be repaired as soon as it is damaged.

"Then, I wish you a speedy return."

In front of Chu, a door slowly opened.

Just as he was about to walk in, Chu suddenly turned around and said, "That."

"Huh?" There was a puzzled voice in the air, maybe it was unexpected that Chu would start the topic.

"Here." Looking at the scattered corpses on the wasteland, Chu hesitated and said, "When can we clean it?"

"···"

After a while of silence, the voice replied: "No problem..."

"En." Chu responded, turned and walked into the door.

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Yingzi's family lives at the foot of a mountain. This is a very remote place. Except for low hills, there are woods and rivers around. Even the nearest village is more than ten miles away from their home.

But even so, their family lived happily.

They have lived here as long as Yingzi can remember.

The log cabin at home was built by my father himself, using the strongest wood in the mountains. Every morning when I wake up, I can smell the unique fragrance of trees.

There is a cherry tree in front of the wooden house. I heard that the reason why Sakura is called Sakura is because the cherry tree in front of the door was in full bloom on the day she was born, and the pink petals fell to the ground.As soon as the father slapped his head, he decided that her name was Yingzi. (Perhaps most fathers choose their names like this, wry smile)

Going out along the path in front of the house is their family's field, where grains and vegetables are planted, and there are several scarecrows made by their mother.Sakurako's favorite thing to do is to go to the fields to play. She is a girl full of curiosity, and everything is so novel to her.

Whether it's a frog jumping away in the field, or a gray bird that occasionally comes back to steal grain, they can be her playmates.

She could sit by the path and watch her father work in the fields and listen to the frogs sing all day long.You can also hide in the haystacks, lazily bask in the sun, and then wait for an opportunity to scare away the birds that come to eat.

My father is a bit strict, and his favorite thing to do is to sit in front of the house, smoke a bag of cigarettes after a day of hard work, and wait for the cherry blossom tree in front of the house to bloom with the setting sun.But every year when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, he is always very busy, either plowing the fields or chopping firewood in the mountains, so he doesn't have much time to look at the cherry blossoms.

My mother is very gentle, she likes dinner time best, every time at this time she will prepare delicious food, watching Yingzi and her father wolf down, she will sit on the side and cover her mouth with a smile.

The life of their family is very ordinary, but Yingzi is willing to live like this forever.

However, one night, a guest came to their home.

The guest was wearing a tattered khaki hat, with a straw dangling from his mouth, and his clothes were loose and sloppy, with his chest exposed.There was stubble on the corner of his mouth, and a knife was slung at his waist.

According to the guest, his father used to be a very powerful swordsman and killed many people, but now, he wants his father to pay off the debt.

After speaking, he drew the knife from his waist.

Yingzi still can't forget the scene at that time. Her father was covered in blood and fell in a pool of blood. Her mother knelt beside her father and cried, while the man held a knife and pointed at her mother.Then the light of the knife fell, blood splashed out, and the mother fell to the ground.

With tears in her eyes, Yingzi fell to the ground, looking at everything in front of her stupidly.The swordsman looked at her indifferently, but didn't make any more moves. Instead, he lit a fire and threw it into the wooden house that contained all of Yingzi's memories.

The wooden house was ignited by the flames, burned, and collapsed with a creaking groan.

The swordsman put away the knife, dropped the straw in his mouth, put his hand lightly on the handle of the knife, turned and left, and before leaving, he said a word.

"For the rest of my life, there will always be a time to pay back."

I don't know if it was for Yingzi, or for himself.Maybe what he meant was that sooner or later, he would end up like this.

Tears blurred Yingzi's vision, she sat in the hot flames, and she touched a stone on the ground in a trance.

It was a black stone with weird lines on it, it didn't know where it came from, it seemed to appear suddenly.

But when Yingzi held the stone, a paragraph appeared in her mind.

"Are you willing to pay for your sins and summon the apostles? The apostles will serve you and fulfill your wish."

The voice has an inexplicable magic power, which makes people listen unconsciously.

For a moment, the idea of ​​revenge filled Yingzi's heart, she hardly thought about it, she was willing to pay no matter what the price.

The girl tightly grasped the unknown stone, as if grasping the last straw, said.

"call."

She didn't wait long, and the stones really did the trick.

In the flames, a black figure walked towards her.

"In the early days of the apostles, they followed the call and came to be sent."

"I want revenge, teach me swordsmanship, I want revenge with my own hands."

The firelight reflected the girl's empty eyes, she murmured her request, and then passed out.

(End of this chapter)