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Chapter 387 The Night Before ([-])

——In front of the campfire, brave men——

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"One sunset."

On the top of the small hill in the forest, the beautiful priestess looked at the sunset on the distant horizon, and murmured sadly.

The next moment, she suddenly collapsed, holding her head and started wailing: "I've had enough!! How can I end this plot and let me 'exit'!!!"

"A hundred days, a hundred days! How can any drama last for a hundred days!!"

But while she was roaring wildly, her companion, a warrior monk who was so strong that he was not like a human being, was still meditating calmly, and at the same time calmly corrected: "A hundred sunsets, but in this world Everything is very blurry, and my sense of the passage of time is never that clear... Therefore, the flow rate of time here should be different from that outside, and it should not be the exact 2400 hours."

The priest didn't want to hear such words. She gave the monk a fierce look and continued to howl to herself: "And where is the entrance? Why did the entrance to the stage disappear as soon as we came on stage? How do we leave? !!How is this completely different from the situation of those three little girls!!"

"My body has also been transformed into this! I have become a woman!!" She pinched her chest and covered her face, "I don't want to be a 'priest' anymore!! Let me go back and continue doing it. Tokyo’s [-]th generation male, Keito Ume!!!”

The monk finally opened his eyes and comforted her: "That kind of thing is not important. I don't care whether Hui Ren is a man or a woman. As long as we are still together, it will be okay."

Obviously, such words can only have the opposite effect.Judging from the expression on the priest's face, she was almost on the verge of rage.

But the next moment, as if she had some inspiration, she calmed down and just stared at the monk: "...Jack, I suddenly feel that you are a little strange. You have been trapped in this place for more than 100 days. You don’t seem to be anxious at all.”

"There is no need to be anxious at all. In my philosophy, the first half of life is to find your own half, and the second half is to spend time with your half. So now that I have found you and been with you, where should I do it? What, it doesn’t matter to me.”

The monk, who seemed to be meditating again, paused for a moment, closed his eyes and muttered to himself in a deep voice: "...It would be better to say that I cherish these days..."

The keen priestess was not comforted, but her brows furrowed even more.

"I always feel that you are hiding something from me." She continued to stare at the monk, and then slowly said, "What is it, I didn't expect..."

"That's not the case." The monk opened his eyes and expressed a sincere expression.

The priest raised his eyebrows, wanting to continue to attack.

But the monk changed the topic at the right time: "But, indeed, a hundred days is too long... That's why Arthur went to Haiyuan for a showdown. Let's just wait for the result quietly."

——A hundred sunsets ago, after the brief encounter between the devil and the dragon, the end of the "third act" was announced on the theater's LED display.

Next, the fourth act was also staged on time, and the brave continued to embark on the journey.

But from here on, the script deviates again.

I don't know what the brave man was thinking, but he should have continued to go to the Demon King's Castle firmly... After seeing the Demon King, he changed his mind instead.

He no longer went to the Demon King's City, but began to wander aimlessly.

Along the way, he continued to defeat bandits and monsters, saving villages threatened by monsters along the way, and new companions gradually gathered around him...

In fact, they were the teammates prepared for him in the original script to defeat the Demon King - the "Knight" played by Arthur, the "Priest" played by Keito Ugo, and the "Monk" played by Jack. The three of them took turns in turn, one by one. Appeared.

Then Hui Ren and the others discovered that they couldn't go back at all.The "upper narrative layer" from which they came has completely disappeared. Entities such as "stage", "theater" and "entrance" have disappeared, and even concepts such as "curtain" have disappeared.

It seems that the perspective changes caused by stepping on the stage. The scene that seems limited and false from below the stage turns into an infinite world when you are actually in it.It's as if this world has existed independently from the beginning.There is no "upper narrative" or "drama" at all. Everything happens naturally in this world.

Hui Yuanchu, the "protagonist", seemed completely unaware of this.

He seems to have been completely involved in the drama a long time ago. He doesn't even remember the "Cleveland High School of Flesh and Blood". He just thinks that he has been the brave man of this world from the beginning.

——Although this brave man is unwilling to act according to the script.

The hero's mission should have been to defeat the Demon King, but instead the hero wandered the land with his companions, and no matter how the other three persuaded them, they refused to go to the Demon King's Castle.

So, the attack came.

After all, the hero never followed the script and went to the Demon King's Castle.Therefore, the devil finally lost his patience after waiting for a while.She expressed her anger in the most direct way: sending assassins to attack the brave, and each time leaving her urgings in the form of letters.

Most of the assassins sent by the devil are easy to deal with, after all, they are just faceless miscellaneous soldiers.But the trouble is that sometimes the powerful Four Heavenly Kings will mix in and launch surprise attacks.

The first is the "Dark Saint", the most... unknown one among the Four Heavenly Kings.

It was a beautiful, childlike girl with fox ears and a tail, and a hot figure... People would recognize her at a glance. Isn't this Laixiang!

Therefore, the behavior of this "Dark Saint" from beginning to end is indeed consistent with Hui Ren's understanding of Laixiang: it can be described as "chaos"...

——Sneaking into the hero's tent with scantily clad clothes, successfully drugging the hero, and then started a war against the hero thinking he had a chance of victory.

——At the beginning of the fight, he was so weak that he was given the speed of light for nothing, and was defeated by the brave man.

——Because he was hit on the head by an olive, he completely forgot that the hero’s tent was in the center of the camp of the hero team, so he lost control and screamed “Daddy, love me again”, which immediately alerted all the members of the team, so they had to start a fight.

——At the beginning of the fight, he was so weak that he was given the speed of light for nothing, and was defeated by the brave man. (not repeated)
——successfully escaped.With a look of satisfaction on his face, he scurried away like a fox who had stolen something, and barked, "If I lose, I will no longer be the Four Heavenly Kings, and I swear that I will never be your enemy again"...

...In short, the meaning is completely unclear, and it is impossible to figure out what she is doing here.

It's not so much that he's here to stop the brave, it's even better to say he's here to make a short movie.

The second one to attack was the "Dark General", the most strict among the Four Heavenly Kings.

The Four Heavenly Kings seem to disdain and cater to the setting of this world of dragons and magic at all. She still wears a hip-covering business suit and round-frame glasses according to her original habits... However, in terms of character and tactics, she is very domineering and dignified.

She didn't consider any tricks. She just commanded the goblin army, unabashedly surrounded the brave team, and then killed them in waves.Although cliché, it is impeccable and really puts the brave team into a tough fight.

The brave man judged that he would lose if he continued to waste away like this, so he decided to adopt a strategy of ignoring the miscellaneous soldiers and directly beheading the opponent's general.

Then, with the knight acting as the arrow and the other partners acting as flankers, the team began a desperate assault.In the end, the small team broke through the goblin army and rushed in front of the dark general in one breath.Under the banner of the commander, the dark general was nailed to the ground with a heavy shot from the knight with all the force of the attack. He died cleanly without leaving a word.

The Goblin army that lost its leader collapsed and scattered. The brave team won again, defeated another Four Heavenly Kings and cut off one of the Demon King's wings.

By this time, because the Four Heavenly Kings had already been eliminated in two out of three, the brave team also developed contempt, feeling that the Four Heavenly Kings and the Demon King were nothing more than that.

Soon, they paid the price for underestimating the enemy.

First, the priest finds himself cursed.

In a nightmare, the priest once again saw a strange and indescribable monster.The monster claimed that the priest would be blessed if he liked it... but after waking up, the priest found that he had turned into a woman.

Priests became priestesses.

In the next period of time, there was no way to lift the curse of the priestess.At the same time, the team also fell into a strange predicament.

Dense forests that seem to always return to their original place, mountain roads that appear to be cliffs, muddy swamps that appear inexplicably on the plains, identical ruins that seem to appear every other section of the road... Various strange phenomena appear for no apparent reason. And disappeared for no reason.

Along with the sudden increase in pressure from the external environment, there is also pressure within the team.

There seems to be an "inner ghost" in the team.Everyone has had the experience of being sneak-attacked by "teammates" who didn't see their faces clearly.

Repression, suspicion, conflicts of interests and personalities, and confusing futures - conflicts soon broke out among the various members of the team.

Just as the team was about to fall apart, the brave man suddenly took out a magical item.

Or "relics".

——Because it was a burnt human hand.

A wonderful fire kindled from the burnt hand.The fire gently licks all its companions, healing their wounds.But at the same time, it spread into the darkness, igniting the hidden enemies, causing her to scream and run out, unable to hide anymore.

The chief of the Dark Court of the Four Heavenly Kings, a short sorcerer whose true identity is always hidden under a towering sorcerer's hat.

All the strange phenomena that shook everyone's minds along the way were all caused by the chief of the Dark Palace.Even the internal strife in the brave team was deliberately provoked by her using various illusions.

But that burnt human hand seemed to be restraining the chief of the dark palace.

Her invincible illusion was broken by the flames, and she was unable to escape, so she was finally killed by the brave man.

So far, all the Four Heavenly Kings have been defeated, but the atmosphere of the team... has finally reached a point where it can no longer be maintained.

So after taking a breather after the battle, the priest, knight and monk discussed and decided that the knight who was most familiar with the brave man would take action and go to show off his cards to the brave man.

The priests and monks were patiently waiting for the outcome of the negotiations.

At this time - "Didi Didi".

The staff in the priestess's hand rang.

So she raised the gem on the top of the staff to her ear and listened, then turned back to the monk and said, "Let's go. Arthur said that he had already negotiated with Haiyuan. Haiyuan was finally willing to talk to all of us openly. Let's talk about the current situation, so let's all go back."

At moonrise, the priest and monk returned to the camp.

Pushing aside the bushes, they saw the brave man and knight sitting by the campfire at a glance.

Next to the crackling bonfire, on a lying tree trunk, the brave man and the knight sat side by side - both of them crossed their right legs on their left knees, raised their heads and looked straight ahead, fascinated by the moonlight in the sky.

But between the two of them, there was an empty space for a microsecond.

... The atmosphere is different from what the priestess thought.Both of them were very quiet, as if they were remembering something.

After a moment of silence, the brave man took out the blackened severed hand from his arms, placed it in the empty space between the two of them, and then exhaled: "Get used to this feeling."

"Yes, it feels better to get used to it." The knight nodded, "It's as if the hero is still here. Three people side by side."

For a moment, the overly inspired priest had an illusion - it seemed that there was a person sitting in the empty space occupied by Jiao Hand between the knight and the hero.

A red-haired boy.

The three people sitting side by side made a unified movement, inadvertently raising their right legs on their left knees, raising their heads and looking straight ahead.

The illusion is only fleeting.

The priestess took another closer look, and saw that there was nothing between the hero and the knight, except for a scorched hand.

"This is..." She hesitated, not knowing whether to ask the origin of Jiaoshou, or the red-haired boy in the illusion she saw just now.

The knight nodded knowingly.

"This is Haiyuan and I's former companion. It's called a hero." He explained, "But he died a long time ago... The only relic left behind was this blackened hand.

The priestess understood in an instant, and both of her questions were answered.

The knight has always been considerate, and then began to slowly tell the story of the "hero" to the priestess and monk.

The brave man didn't object.

He just listened silently while looking at the two moons in the sky with a nostalgic expression.

(End of this chapter)