Chapter 28: It's a never-ending road
It was this blood-red sky again, with dense rain falling in the sky, and the rain flowed through the silent corpses.
The wasteland is empty.
In this hollow dead silence, a black mist suddenly appeared and condensed, gradually forming a human body.
He first wore a black robe, dissipated with the black mist, and opened his eyes.
After the mission ended, she returned to the Apostle Wasteland.
She put her hands on her face and looked ahead blankly.
What she was thinking about, she was thinking about what was happening before the mission ended.
Before she returned here, Hillman left her a gift, a very shallow kiss. This made Chu very puzzled, because there seemed to be an emotion in her heart that had not appeared for a long time.
Is it sad to parting? Or something else? It’s a bit complicated, and she can’t understand it.
However, she will keep the gift as required.
I put down my hand, looked at the "scenery" in front of me, and found a place and sat down silently.
There is no living thing, and no one will talk to her.
She just sat quietly, her eyes closed.
For her, it was both a rest and a waiting.
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, the sound rang out from above her again.
"Welcome back, Apostle, congratulations on completing this mission. Now you have 6,000 points of guilt, do you need to strengthen it?"
"Intensify?" Hearing this sound for the first time, he slowly looked into the sky.
"Yes." Although I have said it once, Chu seems to remember it. He said again with endless pleasure: "Taking up guilt can increase the body's ability or increase the upper limit of his own evil."
"Yeah..." Chu pondered for a moment, and when he recalled, he did talk about this ability when he introduced his voice to her last time.
After thinking for a while, she said, "You can assign as you like."
"No problem. According to the random allocation, I will help you increase your physical attributes by 100 points and add the upper limit of 1000 points of evil."
After speaking, she clearly felt that her body had been strengthened again. This obvious growth made her feel a little uncomfortable. At the same time, the existence called evil in her body also grew a part of it.
It was only a small part, but even so, I could still feel that she became even more numb, and she had even gradually begun to lose her touch.
I think at most, with such reinforcement, she will completely lose her sense of touch. After losing her sense of touch, it may be smell, taste, hearing, and vision.
Of course, Chu did not take these into consideration. Even if she had five senses, she could still use evil to judge the position and identify the direction, which would not affect her completing the task.
As long as you can complete the task, isn't it?
But then, can she still keep Hillman's gift?
She has no answer.
"Are you ready for the next mission?" the voice asked.
Chu didn't say anything, nodded as an answer.
"Very good, the next mission has been determined, collecting the evil of "hate". Do you want to take a break or set off right away?"
"Let's go."
While waiting, she had been resting for a long time.
She needs tasks, which can make her feel her existence, not like the corpses here.
When Chu stood up, a wave of water-like fluctuations appeared on the black robe on her body, and the blood stained on the corpse was shaken off. This robe was made of deterioration, and she had the ability to cleanse herself. Similarly, it would be repaired as soon as it was damaged.
"Then, I wish you a return soon."
In front of Chu, a door slowly opened.
Just as he was about to walk in, Chu suddenly turned around and said, "That."
"Hmm?" A confused voice came from the air. Perhaps I didn't expect Chu to start a topic.
"Here." After looking at the corpses on the wasteland, Chu hesitated for a moment and said, "When can I clean it up?"
“···”
After a silence, the voice replied: "No problem..."
"Yeah." Chu responded, turned around and walked into the door.
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Sakurako's family lives at the foot of a mountain, which is a very remote place. Apart from low hills, there are woods and rivers. Even the nearest village is more than ten miles away from their homes.
But even so, their family lives happily.
They have lived here since Sakurako can remember.
The small wooden house in my home was built by my father and I used the strongest wood in the mountains. Every morning when I wake up, I can smell the unique fragrance of the trees.
There is a cherry blossom tree in front of the wooden house. I heard that the reason why Sakurazi is called Sakurazi is because the day she was born, the cherry blossom tree in front of the door was in full bloom, and pink petals fell all over the ground. My father slapped his head and decided that her name was Sakurazi. (Maybe most fathers named it like this, smiled bitterly)
Walking out along the path in front of the house is their field. Cereals and vegetables are planted in the fields, and there are also several scarecrows made by her mother. Sakurako usually likes to play by the field. She is a curious girl. In her opinion, everything is so novel.
Whether it is a frog jumping in the field or a gray bird who occasionally comes back to steal grains, it can be her playmate.
She could sit by the road and watch her father work in the fields while listening to frogs singing songs all day long. She could also hide in haystacks, bask in the sun lazily, and then wait for an opportunity to scare away the birds that came to steal food.
My father was a little stern. His favorite thing was to sit in front of the house after working for a day, smoke a bag of cigarettes, and wait for the cherry blossom trees in front of the door to bloom with the sunset. But every year when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, he is always very busy, either plowing the land in the fields or chopping wood in the mountains, and there is no time to watch the cherry blossoms.
My mother is very gentle. She likes dinner time the most. Every time she is at this time, she will prepare delicious food. When she watches Sakurako and her father eat voraciously, she will sit aside and cover her mouth and smile.
Their family's life is very dull, but Sakurako is willing to live like this forever.
However, one night, a guest came to their home.
The guest was wearing a ragged yellow hat, holding a straw in his mouth, his clothes were loose and sloppy, revealing his chest, with a stubble at the corner of his mouth, and a knife was slapped around his waist.
In the mouth of the guest, his father used to be a very powerful swordsman and killed many people, but now he wants his father to pay off his debts.
After saying that, he pulled out the knife from his waist.
Sakurako still cannot forget the scene at that time. Her father fell in a pool of blood, and her mother knelt beside her father and cried, while the man held a knife and looked at her mother. Then the light of the knife fell, blood splashed out, and her mother fell to the ground.
Sakurako sat on the ground with tears in her eyes, staring at everything in front of her. The swordsman looked at her coldly, but did not take action. Instead, he lit a fire and threw it into the wooden house containing all Sakurako's memories.
The wooden house was ignited by flames, burned, and collapsed in a creaking moan.
The swordsman put away the knife, threw the straw in his mouth, put his hand lightly on the hilt of the knife, turned around and left, and before leaving, he said something.
"A lifetime will always be repaid."
I don’t know if it was for Sakurako or for him to listen to it himself. Maybe he meant that one day, I would end like this.
Tears blurred Sakurako's vision, and she sat in the hot flames. In a trance, she touched a stone on the ground.
It was a black stone with strange patterns on it. I don’t know where it came from, just as if it suddenly appeared.
But when Sakurako held the stone, a passage appeared in her mind.
"Are you willing to call the apostles at the cost of your sins? The apostles will serve you and fulfill your wishes."
The sound carries an inexplicable magic that makes people listen unconsciously.
In an instant, the idea called revenge filled Sakurako's heart. She almost didn't think much, and she was willing to pay no matter what the price.
The girl said tightly as if she was holding on to the last straw to save her life.
"call."
She didn't wait too long, and the stone really worked.
In the flames, a black figure walked towards her.
"The apostle came in the first place according to the call and waited for the sending."
"I want to take revenge, teach me swordsmanship, I want to take revenge with myself."
The fire reflected the girl's empty and unsightly eyes. She murmured and made her request, and then fainted.
Chapter completed!