dark moon

Chapter 176 Hometown Story

The two camps were not far apart, and it took only half an hour to walk, but it took Dak a full two hours to go back and forth.

It is not difficult to understand that the parasites are already quite nervous at this time. The relatively safe camp is the best spiritual fortress for them. They want to make them in fear leave the safe camp to face unknown dangers. , it is really not an easy task, especially when you know that the place you are going to is the source of the strange incident, the camp where hundreds of people disappeared. Several people were so frightened that they could not even stand and did not cry on the spot. Even if they were brave enough Got the courage.

However, fortunately, they also know that these powerful knights are their only hope. If they want to walk out of the wilderness alive, they can only follow the footsteps of the knights.Therefore, when Dak showed his tough attitude that it doesn't matter whether you follow or not, but those who don't follow now will be abandoned here when they leave the wilderness in the future. In addition, the four mercenaries hired by their own side also When standing on the other side, the parasites completely lost the courage to fight. The leader McCree took the opportunity to persuade a few words casually, and the parasites succumbed to their fate, fearfully leaving everything where they were, taking only their personal belongings, and followed The impatient knights who had been waiting for a long time embarked on an unknown journey together.

It took a frightening and procrastinating hour to complete the usual half-hour journey. The closer they got to the caravan camp that appeared in the distance, the slower these parasites walked. Many people's eyes were already wet, and they were holding their belongings with them. The items of faith they carried kept praying in low voices, praying to the gods to save them from danger. For a moment, the team was filled with despair and sadness. If an uninformed person saw it, they would mistake it for a picture of ferocious soldiers. The scene of escorting innocent civilians to the execution ground.

Of course, the gods are too lazy to pay attention to these believers who are scaring themselves. No matter how reluctant these parasites are, they can only watch the terrifying missing persons camp enlarging in their eyes little by little. The distance is getting closer and closer, and they can even see clearly the people sitting in the camp. On a table inside, a man and a woman were playing cards boredly.

"This guy..." Dak felt that the blood vessels on his forehead were beating violently. He didn't consider that he would definitely join in if he were there. He yelled loudly, "You asked me to run so far. I thought you had something serious to do. But in the end, Just playing cards here?”

"Guarding the camp is the most serious thing, and..." Shuer stared at the cards and raised his eyebrows and said, "And is this what you are paying attention to?"

Of course not. The key question is, why are you sitting on the table and agreeing not to touch anything in the camp?

"What happened to the table?"

"Don't worry, this was dug out from a corner. Ma Lian and the others have never been there, and it has nothing to do with their disappearance." Xiuer said lightly, "It can be regarded as a test. Well, while you are not here, .”

Needless to say, Xiure's meaning is already obvious. If you didn't come, Lisa wouldn't be involved when I did the test. No matter what the result of the test is, Lisa will always be safe.And... I touched the letter paper in my pocket. During the test, it was folded and placed at the entrance of the camp. Even if she was in danger due to the test, Lisa could successfully walk out of the wilderness.

"Brother!" Lisa got out of the carriage. In the past two days, the girl has been doing her best job, comforting the people in the team, and she didn't even have time to be around her brother.Now she finally had another chance. Even though she knew that hundreds of people had disappeared here not long ago, the girl didn't care. She threw herself next to Xiul with a smile on her face, "Wow, brother, your cards are really bad. Aren't you about to lose?"

"Ahem, cough, cough." After a moment of embarrassment, Xiuer put the cards into the girl's hand, pretending not to see the girl's angry eyes, and looked at the parasitic team among the knights as if nothing had happened, curled his lips and said, "It's true. slow."

"You can even take out the cards. What else do you have with you?"

"The Lord said that even in the midst of heavy work, don't forget to use entertainment to regulate your mental state. It is a virtue to carry entertainment props with you."

Talina and the two children glared at her, "Master Priest, you have tampered with the oracle again. No, this is no longer tampering, but unscrupulous fabrication!"

"Aren't you really ready to go to the tavern to play cards at any time and use cheating methods to get a few gold coins out of you?"

"Tsk, that's better than carrying the amniotic membrane around with you, and grabbing the amniotic membrane when you see a beautiful woman you feel good about."

The fierce gazes met in the air. This is the most sacred cause in our hearts. We must not tolerate others' slander. Let's fight for justice.

"Brother, brother, what is amniotic membrane?" Lisa's confused voice broke the tense atmosphere between the two idiots.

"Uh, well, good boy, it's better not to know." Only to Lisa, Shuer didn't dare to talk nonsense, and said loudly with wandering eyes, "We're all here, right?"

"Hey", snickered a few times behind his brother's back, the great Lord Lisa secretly made a vulgar gesture to Duck while Xiu Er couldn't see it, once the gesture was made, she also felt very indecent, shy He hid on his brother's back, blushing and not daring to show his head. "Everyone, don't be afraid, the dark moon will always protect you." Ignoring Dak, whose worldview collapsed, and Lisa, who was blushing shyly, Xiuer resumed his original holy posture, spreading his hands on both sides of his body, like He said to the parasites with open arms, "In the name of me, Shure Wright, I assure you that as long as you obey the order and don't move at will, you will not suffer any harm here."

"This guy is seriously lying to others again." Dak taunted secretly in his heart, "In his own name, tsk tsk tsk."

Dak knows the essence of Xiuer, but the parasites don't know it. In their eyes, a clergyman who behaves elegantly and calmly, exudes sacred brilliance, makes a promise to everyone in his own name, which is the second best thing. Yu made the promise solemnly in the name of the gods.Invisibly, the hearts of these low-level civilians have slowly relaxed. Of course, what is more important is his next sentence.

"If nothing else happens, today, um, just today, we will be able to see those missing people. Tomorrow at the latest, everyone can set off."

Before he finished speaking, a burst of murmurs broke out from the crowd. This was the best news. The parasites were looking forward to hearing this in their dreams.

"Huh? Have you completely figured it out?" Dak naturally thought much more than those people. He was not as excited as the parasites. Instead, he frowned and asked in a deep voice, "How are you going to get them back? "

"Get them back? No, no, no, I have no intention of looking for them." Shuer's tone was full of mockery, not for others, but for himself. "I'm afraid you have misunderstood one thing. In fact, they don't even We need to rescue them. Why do we need to rescue them? That’s because we have put ourselves in a strong position from the beginning and have always thought that we should be the rescuers. However, what if in this story, Are we not rescuers? Are we the ones who really need rescue?"

"What do you mean?" As a knight and mercenary, Dak's character is always straightforward, and he doesn't like things that have too many twists and turns, so he asked directly, "What's going on?"

"I told you just now, they are safe and nothing happened." Shuer did not answer Dak's question directly, but changed the subject and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand. In fact, I didn't understand as much as you did until this morning. , but now I understand."

Not only Dak, but also the knights who were directly related, everyone around who could hear the conversation, including the people from the Dark Moon Temple and the leaders of the two parasites, all pricked up their ears, waiting for Shuer's words. explain.

"Last night, I thought over and over what we had encountered in the past two days, and I always felt that something was wrong." Xiu Er did not disappoint everyone, and explained slowly, "It was not right from the very beginning."

"The situation we encountered seems very simple. The caravan was swallowed up by the ghost space first, and then the next day, Ma Lian and others who went to explore also followed the caravan's footsteps. However, recalling all the ghost spaces I can remember None of the cases mentioned that the ghost space can still swallow lives after a period of time. Of course, this may be because there are no previous cases like ours this time where someone went to investigate so quickly. But this is just a possibility. Judging from the data alone, the eruption of the ghost space is often just a moment. All the victims are sucked in at that moment, and there has never been an example of being sucked in again afterwards."

"For another example, the monster that should appear next to you does not appear. It can be explained by the natural sensitivity of monsters, but what about the sky? Yesterday and today, which of you saw birds in the sky? No, neither did I."

"There are many similar contradictions, and I couldn't figure out why, until I remembered a story from my hometown."

"That's my home world, a legend passed down from the last civilization era. It's a fable. Not many people know it, but I've always found it interesting."

"The protagonist of the story is a scholar, maybe a...philosopher. One day he had a dream, dreaming that he became a butterfly and flew among the flowers. In the dream, he got rid of the shackles of his body and identity, flew He was free and unrestrained, and the whole dream made him feel unprecedented happiness."

"After waking up from the dream, he naturally changed back to himself. At this time, he was full of confusion and even began to doubt life. Did I dream and turned into a butterfly just now, or is the butterfly dreaming now and turned into me?"

　How can I put it this way? In this plot, my old habit of being long-winded and procrastinating has returned. I must apologize to everyone for this.Well, I'm sorry, I didn't hold it back, I let myself go a little bit.But now that I have discovered it, I will get back on the right path as soon as possible, well, try my best, try my best, hahahaha.

　　The other thing is. . .After reading this chapter and the next chapter, everyone should understand this plot. . . .In fact, I can only write like this. I can only say that in the future, try not to arrange such plots that can only be described from the side. . . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)