Chapter 40: A Chance Encounter
The demons who live in hell are either too old or too young, and rarely have a middle-aged man in the middle. Ashley is the older one. She forgot to count the specific age. There is no way, where does the demons come from to celebrate their birthdays for each other. Moreover, the flow of time in hell cannot be observed by astronomical phenomena, and no one or demons will invent a calendar or something.
The Abyss Demon Realm is a terrible prison. From the warden to the prisoner to the prisoner, no one has tried their best to escape. In the past, before the annoying Terra Church unified the continent, humans were polytheistic. Some high-level demons were worshipped like gods, responding to the call in rotten, bloody, and indulging gatherings, and coming to the world to become helpers to satisfy their ambitions.
The era of demons dancing is gone forever. In fact, the contract owner Sophie Bernard doesn't care about her at all. There is a strong bond between the demon and the master, which ensures that both parties will not hurt each other and can find each other. It has been a few months since Sophie has never appeared in her mind. Ashley just walked through the ruins of the Frank country, sniffing the smell of Lyon like a hunting dog, fantasizing that one day he will be chased back.
The snow was too thick, and every step forward seemed to step into a swamp. Without a mount for transportation, she found a strong enough tree trunk as a cane, and her progress was so slow that it was outrageous. In order not to get lost and blind her eyes in the snowfield, she tried to get close to the woods and frozen rivers. After humans disappeared, this place became a paradise for carnivores. The wild dogs that had eaten human flesh and red eyes were wandering around the edge of the forest, staring at her.
Animals will not be confused by the surface, Ashley has become a human, but the inner demons can still exude a terror of beasts.
What a pity, the succubus was helpless when he looked at the wild dogs fleeing. She remembered that humans living in the extreme north would use dogs to pull sleds, and now she urgently needs the help of a pack beast.
If you can't walk ten miles a day, you have to find a place to stay overnight, otherwise you will be blown away by the wind when your clothes are wet, and even the demons will fall down. It is not difficult to find a house to stay, as long as you don't mind the frozen bodies in the house. Ashley can't remember how long it has been since she saw a living person. When she pushed open the door that was frozen in the snow, the hostess was hugging her and welcoming her with her child.
The succubus turned around and closed the door, bypassing the already stiff mother and son on the floor. Winter was very cruel, which took life and preserved every detail before death, allowing the latecomers to fully appreciate the pain of the deceased. She threw down her backpack and gestured to the empty fire pit. The flames made out of nothing can be maintained until she dismantled the only remaining chair in the house and threw it into it as firewood.
Despite her lack of hope, she searched the entire room, neither food and drink nor male owner.
"Man, ha?" Using fur as a mat, the succubus sat cross-legged and chatted with the motionless hostess.
She has seen many such scenes. Only the strong can survive when encountering major disasters. The wife and children are just burdens, the sooner they are left, the better. She looked at the corpse not far away. The fire added a little bit of anger to the house and illuminated the mother and son. The mother still tried to comfort her son at the last moment, the child closed her eyes, and the mother's mouth was half open.
What was she talking about? Dad will definitely come back to save us?
Ashley amused herself and laughed so hard that she fell back and forth. This poor fool!
"quelqu'un?" A knock on the door came outside the house.
The succubus hadn't heard a living person speak for two months, but she didn't miss it. Ashley blinked into the fire pit and put out the fire.
"Is there anyone in the room?"
Chapter completed!