Food Poems

Chapter 54: Drive out all the shadow beasts

Grey dragged the giant moose on a cart across the cobblestone road, and the three of them returned to Winter Lake City before curfew.

The sound of wheels stopped at the door of the Chamber of Commerce Post Station. The cart was placed in the cowshed, and Ye Zhi asked Snow Owl to help guard it.

"Gu!" The snowy owl's yellow eyes were bright and sharp. It flapped its wings and flew to the top of a small tower, with its back to the moon in the night sky.

Yeats returned to the guest room and walked along the corridor with torches. He found that the sound of talking was still heard under the closed arched door of the meeting room.

The drill on the shoulder suddenly pricked up his ears in alertness.

Squeak.

The door opened from the inside and a middle-aged man with deep blue eyes, sickly paleness and thin cheekbones walked out.

He was wearing a dark robe embroidered with noble family crests, a pair of black musk gloves, and looked very haggard.

Suddenly seeing two figures standing outside the door, the man shuddered all over, quickly glanced at Ye Zhi and Gray, then raised his chin and said coldly: "Get out of the way."

It was obvious that the man was not in a normal condition. Yeats and Gray made way and watched the man's back. He took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth again, retched a few times, pushed open the door and disappeared into the night.

Zuanya stood on Ye Zhi's shoulder and said disdainfully: "Humph, the breath of the dark night."

"So, can you judge whether he is a Dark Night believer?" Ye Zhi rubbed his chin.

This person looks very suspicious. He might be the wizard in the plot who was contaminated by the knowledge of the dark night and eventually corrupted!

"No." Zuanya said bluntly, "Just because a person is stained with the breath of the dark night doesn't mean he is a believer of the dark night. It's like just because a person eats nuts doesn't mean he is a squirrel!"

Inequality seconds!
Ye Zhi thought about it and asked with some concern: "Then do Gray and I have the so-called dark night aura?"

Diamond jumped onto the blanket on the floor, inspected the two of them, and shook his head slowly.

"The aura will gradually dissipate. Even if you have come into contact with Dark Night believers before, it does not mean that the aura will still remain now."

Zuanya said proudly, "Besides, I'm here to make sure the Dark Night Goddess won't be interested in you. Just do as I tell you!"

Ye Zhi: “…”

I’m afraid that I’ve been remembered!

"Who's outside?" Lena's voice came from the conference room.

Ye Zhi pushed the door open and walked in. The red-haired wolf girl was a little surprised.

When she learned that Ye Zhi had become the champion in hunting giant moose, she was deeply shocked.

In fact, it was the squirrel's drilling teeth that did the trick, but this squirrel who likes to fan the flames was in a special situation, so it was not easy to expose it.

Ye Zhi pretended to be nonchalant and asked casually, "By the way, what happened to that gentleman just now? He looked very tired?"

"I actually find it a little strange too." Lena pondered for a while and said, "He is a noble in Winter Lake City. He came to order some jewelry necklaces from me, but his behavior is very strange. And he looks like he has some disease..."

In the Middle Ages, people had little knowledge of genetic diseases, but they knew that there was a chance that blood relatives would give birth to deformed offspring. Even so, in order to consolidate their rule, it was common for nobles to marry close relatives.

Yeats' ancestors had the bloodline of legendary knights, and silver hair was a characteristic of the Bronte family.

And the man with pale skin and gray hair was obviously albinos.

Ye Zhi didn't ask Lena too much and left the conference room and returned to his guest room.

"It was mentioned in the Phantom Wings winter event that the contaminated mage was the product of incest, but because of this he gained extraordinary magical talent... The man just now deserves special attention."

Ye Zhi's eyes flickered, and he thought to himself:

"At tomorrow's lakeside celebration, we can meet King Harrag of the Iron Bone..."

Even after facing the humiliating defeat of the Golden Lion King, Harrag still maintained his iron-fisted rule and never lost the friction with the Kingdom of Beasts. The king often watered and weeded his vegetable garden himself.

This is because in his early years he joined another chief. In order to avoid suspicion, he concealed his ambitions by growing vegetables and gradually fell in love with gardening.

The north is really not suitable for growing vegetables. Yeats suspected that he went south to conquer the Golden Lion just to get fertile soil for farming!

As a result, he was beaten by the Golden Lion King and fled away in fear.

Ye Zhi remembered the Holy Emblem of Winter that Snow Leopard had given him.

It’s just the right time to tell Harrag what Snow Leopard told him, and try to gain an ally to fight against the ancient dragon!

*
Winter Lake City, Noble District.

Eric's House.

The pale man woke up from the luxurious four-poster bed, closed his eyes slightly, and shook his head in pain.

At this time, the maid's trembling voice sounded: "Master Eric, breakfast has been prepared for you, please get up and eat something..."

Eric looked over and saw a human figure made entirely of shadows standing in front of him. His face was blurry, as if there were countless noise points on it.

The shadow was indescribable and gave people a strong sense of weirdness. Eric felt dizzy and nauseous, and roared:
"I want you all to get out of my house. Don't you understand?"

The shadow man's mouth made a harsh metallic sound, from which Eric could barely make out human language.

"But you haven't eaten for two days."

An invisible wizard's hand appeared beside Eric. The ghostly hand grabbed the silver candlestick beside the bed and threw it at the human-shaped shadow, saying viciously:

"Get out, or I'll kill you!"

Bang!
The shadow man was hit by the candlestick, and flowing black shadows seeped out of his body. He knelt on the ground and let out hoarse and ugly sobs.

Eric got up to change his clothes, passed by the shadow man, and said coldly:

"Don't think I will give in... I am not like those weak-willed mages."

The world around him was covered in a shadow in front of Eric's eyes. The room was spinning all the time, and countless terrifying shadow monsters were lurking on the walls.

With a blank expression on his face, he walked into the kitchen and looked down at the so-called "breakfast".

There was a wriggling shadow in the plate, like the corpse of a shadow beast.

Eric swallowed hard, tremblingly picked up a small piece of jelly-like black shadow, and suddenly felt extremely nauseous. He took out a handkerchief and kept dry heaving.

Is there no normal food in this city!
Clang.

The knife and fork fell to the ground.

Eric wiped the corner of his mouth, his eyes grim.

Just endure for one more day... Just one more day and it will be the full moon night when the power of the Goddess of Darkness is the weakest.

As long as I follow the instructions of the Goddess of Youth, I can bring my world back to life and get back on track!
Eric stood on the second-floor windowsill, suppressing his disgust, and looked down.

It's the holiday season, and the city is full of shadow beasts: shadow spiders, shadow wolves, shadow hyenas... and even weird and terrifying shadow men.

"Pretend everything is normal and join in the celebration with these ugly monsters."

Eric's pupils dilated, his nails dug into his clenched palms, and blood dripped onto the shadowy floor beneath his feet.

"I will drive out all the shadow beasts - not a single one will be left alive!"

(End of this chapter)