Beng San, I have an unfinished date with her

If there are villages or towns, go there to rest. If not, just find a boulder beside the road or set up a tent on a high place, light a fire and get some water and dry food.

Along the way, Takashi learned a lot from Alicia about what he needed to know to live in human society.

For example, you have to spend money to buy things, and you have to earn money through work.

Take action when facing evil.

And so on.

In this way, after several days of travel.

The two followed this road and came to a remote village.

"There...is no one here? These buildings look quite complete and clean." Takashi, the doll of light held in Alicia's arms, said this while looking at the village entrance and the buildings in the village. He didn't Sensing life in several houses nearby.

"It doesn't look like this building is uninhabited." Alicia was also quite puzzled. She thought for a while and said, "Long, would you try to expand the range of perception?"

"it is good."

In the past few days, Alicia also roughly understood and experimented with Long on the various things that its abilities can do, including this large-scale perception ability.

Soon, Long raised his head and looked at Alicia's chin and said: "I sensed that there were many people gathering in a place behind the village. They were surrounding a person, and for some reason, they were cutting him with a knife and bleeding him."

Alicia suddenly said in surprise when she heard Long's silent reminiscence: "Ah?...Ah! I remembered it."

"what?"

"I remembered that I came here when I traveled around the world before!"

"At that time, I saw that man being tortured by the villagers and collecting his blood, but I don't know why... the man said it was voluntary."

"Voluntarily...?" Long got out of Alicia's arms and looked there thoughtfully: "Voluntarily being hurt? Are there such human beings? Alicia, didn't you say that being injured before was Something very uncomfortable?”

"It's very uncomfortable...but maybe he really did it voluntarily." Alicia said intermittently.

"Huh?...It's hard to understand."

Alicia looked at Long Feiqi's appearance, put on a smile and said, "Then what do you want to do now?"

Long turned around and looked at Alicia: "I want to save him, just like Alicia said. Whether it is voluntary or not, I don't think that kind of cutting is a good thing."

Alicia's smile became more and more obvious. She raised her hands, looked at Long and said excitedly: "Then do it, I support you!"

"Yeah." Long nodded and flew quickly over there.

Alicia nodded with satisfaction and ran quickly in that direction.

...

Those people gathered around the man who was tied to the pillar, holding their own containers and eager to follow the trickling blood from the cuts on his body.

The man on the pillar wore a mask, but it couldn't block Long's perception... The sharp weapons cut him open and healed again, but his face didn't change at all.

This has always puzzled Long, because unlike what Alicia said before, he did not show aversion to pain.

This is not right.

Not only what Alicia said, but Takashi himself subconsciously determined that [under normal circumstances, pain should be disliked]

Put it this way - was there something that even made him overcome his aversion to pain?

Long thought but did not slow down.

In the eyes of the villagers gathered around the man tied to the pillar.

A golden light suddenly appeared, surrounding the guy on the pillar.

Then the rope burst open, and the light suddenly took the man into the sky and left.

The villagers were stunned for the first time, happy for the second time, and... fear and anger for the third time.

Amidst the indescribable screams, they chased the figure in the air and ran awkwardly without any manners.

Falling, getting up, stumbling, rolling, getting up, running again desperately or being stepped on by someone who fell - and so on, are all shown in these villagers.

Fanaticism, as fanatical as a believer in a god.

But...not for this man.

The light transformed by Long wrapped around his body, but this did not prevent Long's consciousness from continuing to "see" and feel everything.

He felt very clearly the mood of these villagers - they only wanted blood, the blood shed by this man.

rather than him...

Weird, too weird.

In Long's mind, he could feel that this man obviously had great power... Even now he was struggling to transport and restrain him...

"Let go of me, I want to go back!"

The man struggled, and his voice reached Long's consciousness.

"Why? They are hurting you, and you want to go back?" Long's voice reached his ears.

This made him stunned. He looked around and realized that the light belt binding him reacted: "What are you?"

"You can call me Long, I don't know what I am, I want to be a human - what about you? What's your name again."

The man was stunned for a while, but he stopped struggling.

Long could feel that he was thinking, and maybe a little happy...

He's...happy to have someone as confused as him?

"Thousands of calamities."

"Ok?"

"Forget it, you don't have to remember my name. Let me go back." His voice was no longer as angry as it was at first.

"Don't let it go."

"You! Let me go!" Qianjie became angry and exerted force, and the light belt that bound him was suddenly stretched wide by him.

"Haha——!" He even made a loud voice to match his efforts.

But although the light belt was stretched wide by his powerful arms, it remained firmly attached to his body. It never collapsed or became loose, as if it had been growing in the flesh and bones for thousands of eons.

"what!"

"Haha!" He suddenly burst out with a very strange energy fluctuation, which made the phenomenon caused by his power even more severe.

"Huh!?" Long didn't pay attention. He didn't expect that he could explode further. The huge energy came out of his body and actually stretched the light belt all over his body.

Qianjie seized this opportunity and fell towards the ground, exploding a huge cloud of dust.

Long looked down helplessly, retracting the light belt and turning into a doll-like radiant humanoid, flying towards Alicia who was coming down not far from where Qianjie fell.

"Long, how's it going?"

Alicia stopped at the edge of the smoke and asked Takashi who was standing next to her.

"...He didn't want to leave, which puzzled me. But I felt like he softened a little after hearing what I said."

"That's it..." Alicia thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Then tie him up and leave~"

"Tie? Didn't Alicia say before not to do things that go against other people's hearts?"

"Hey, let's just talk about it. Does Long want to see him being cut up and down with a knife all the time?"

"...In no mood."

"Then let's tie him up?"

"it is good."

With that said, Long turned into a strip of light and flew towards the smoke. The smoke could not block his perception.

Qianjie, who was among them, also reacted and waved his hand to block the approaching Long - but his shot was in vain.

Long Na's ability to transform "presence and absence" at will means that this kind of physical attack cannot fall on him at all.

The huge power of Qianjie was released in the air, and the diffuse smoke flew away in the direction of his swing, making the smoke fly like a giant clay dragon.

The cute thirteen- or fourteen-year-old Alicia took a quick step to the side, avoiding the path of the smoke dragon, and looked in that direction with a smile on her face.

The smoke quickly dispersed due to Qianjie's fist.

At this moment, he was even more "embarrassed" than when he was in the air, and was completely tied up into a mummy.

Brand new branches: 286.Thousands of tribulations of liberation, yet the heart is not dead yet

No matter how hard Qianjie exerted his force, he could not open it.

Even releasing his huge energy fluctuations won't work.

"What the hell is this!" Qianjie yelled angrily.

The light belt was connected to Long's body, and it separated some of the glorious bodies of the puppets that built it, floating next to Qianjie, who was tightly wrapped except for his head: "This is not a ghost, this is my power." A way of materializing.”

"You?" Qianjie's mask did not prevent him from looking directly at the glowing little guy in front of him.

"What the hell, is it still glowing?"

Qianjie's voice was trembling, not because he was afraid, but because he was still exerting force at this moment, fighting against the light belt that tied him into a mummy.

Long hugged his thick doll arms, looked unruly (actually he wasn't), and said calmly: "I said it before, I don't know either."

"How's it going? Is it done?"

"Well, let's go."

"Let's go? What are you doing? Let me go!"

"Hey - pink-haired brat, what do you mean, let your ridiculous doll let me go."

Alicia walked over with a smile and touched Long: "This little brother, my name is Alicia, and I am not a pink-haired brat. If you are rude, um... I will Take off your mask~"

Qianjie was silent for a moment. He wanted to be angry, but after looking at the light belt that bound him, he had no choice but to say: "You'd better pray that it doesn't leave my face."

Alicia and Long looked at each other, and it dragged out a long strip of light and fell into Alicia's hand to leave.

Long whispered to Alicia quietly: "I can feel that when we said we were taking him away, his heart was very fluctuating. It wasn't that he really didn't want to leave at all. He also hated the pain. It was just that he was very hesitant and seemed to I also feel reluctant to leave this place. But I don’t understand why.”

Alicia nodded silently and whispered to Long: "So his name is Qianjie, um..."

She thought for a while and said to Long: "Probably because... the people here need him."

He was stunned for a moment: "Need him? But what I sensed is that their thoughts told me that they only wanted the blood of Qianjie, or that they were afraid of something, which led them to think that they particularly needed the blood of Qianjie, not the blood of Qianjie. The person he is.”

Alicia nodded: "But... the blood comes from Qianjie's body after all. For them, just seeing the blood is enough. But for Qianjie... he is the one who is needed. .”

Long reacted and turned his head to look at Qianjie.

Qianjie discovered his peeping and shouted: "What are you two secretly talking about? Why, are you discussing where to sell me? Hahahaha——"

Long ignored him and turned to whisper to Alicia.

This made Qianjie unable to vent his anger. This feeling was too uncomfortable.

Soon, he felt something - there was movement behind him that was very small to ordinary people, but very large to their senses.

It was the footsteps of those villagers.

After a thousand eons without sorrow or joy, he said nothing and returned to that state of resignation.

Alicia and Long naturally noticed this situation.

The two looked at each other and determined one point - Qianjie could not be allowed to stay here forever.

After the conversation just now, they could find that although Qianjie had a bad temper and dirty words... at least he was not completely crazy and could still think normally.

...Then we can no longer continue to be tortured by these villagers.

Alicia nodded, put Long on her shoulders, and ran forward.

Qianjie, who was bound by the light belt extending from Long's body, was naturally suspended in the air due to the power of the light belt. He ran with Long in violation of the laws of mechanics - because the light belt connecting the two people did not change much. The force of Alicia's forward running was not transmitted to Qianjie's body through the light belt.

Long just stayed on Alicia's shoulder, and Qianjie floated away.

This is a very strange power that belongs to Long.

They were hanging like this, hanging those villagers.

Alicia didn't feel any discomfort at all until the night, she didn't even break out in a sweat, and the smile kept hanging on her face.