"You can see the third note, which means you didn't take my words to heart."
"Warning, your father's patience is running out quickly! I almost don't want to play this (writing covered with blood) game with my dear children!"
"Yes! You heard it right! You will be relieved soon!"
"Listen to me: By the time I see this note, one of you is already in my hands! (The handwriting is covered with blood) There are still thirty seconds left. When the time is up, he will commit suicide out of fear.
La!"
"Dad's sword is already hungry and thirsty! Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up (the following writings are covered with blood)"
After reading the contents of the note softly, the surroundings were silent.
Oak Cliff was slightly startled, and regardless of the chill in his heart, he shouted loudly: "Now! Repeat the numbers you reported before immediately! In order!"
There was silence all around.
"I say! Now immediately repeat the numbers you reported before in order!" He frowned and reiterated loudly again.
But there was still no sound coming from the surroundings.
After a few more seconds, a trembling voice said: "...two."
Then, after a few seconds of pause, the next voice sounded faintly: "Three."
"Four."
"five."
…
"twenty one."
"……twenty-three."
"twenty four."
"...Okay, no need to report."
Oak Clifford softly stopped the increasingly shaky counting sound. When the first sound sounded, he basically realized who the missing one was.
Twenty-two should be the female Ember who was nailed to death by the scarlet canines. So the first one who didn’t respond...
Oak Cliff closed his eyes in pain.
Now, it's almost thirty seconds.
Two minutes, one minute, thirty seconds...
Is the next one fifteen seconds? Then seven seconds? Finally, everyone is instantly killed?
Somehow, Oak Clifford no longer doubted that man's ability. Now he only thought that man was a madman, a complete madman.
At the same time, Oak Clifford couldn't help but feel a little hatred for the Windtalker who provoked such a madman.
"...Okay, everyone, spread out. With me as the center, everyone spread out to find the missing No. 1. There must be at least one person within everyone's visual range. Once the target is lost, call out immediately. What was found?
If so, shout immediately."
Oak Cliff waved his hands feebly and said in a hoarse voice, "Let's all disperse."
The other Ashes looked at him with complicated eyes, but they still obeyed Oak Clifford's order and slowly dispersed to look for the next deceased.
Yes, the dead. When Oak Cliff chose the slow and safe search method, the other Ashes already knew the final fate of the missing person.
Although they already have a death wish in their hearts, they can still obey the orders of their superiors. This kind of quality is extremely rare in the army of this era.
"...Damn it, that lunatic..."
Oak Clifford rubbed his forehead painfully.
How to deal with this kind of madman? His... game, let's call it a game, is there really a way to crack it...
No, probably not. According to what he said, he did not say that he would let Oak Clifford and others go if they wanted to solve his problem, but just used a tone of notice. The other Ashes were
It was because he heard this that he did not complain about Oak Clifford, who seemed incompetent and stupid.
Not only did they understand that even if they went up, the same result would be the same, but once they deciphered the madman's words, they might not be greeted by the end of the game, but they might become angry and kill everyone in an instant.
After all, he is a lunatic, so it is not surprising that he has any way of thinking.
Unknowingly, the Embers' impression of that madman changed from a little person who could only play tricks to a powerful and cruel madman. When they thought that they were dealing with such a person - or even the place where such a person lived,
When the organization went against them, they felt that the future was bleak. They even had some doubts about whether Master Marco's choice to join the Ring of the South Wind was the right one.
Is it... that they, pure god-abandoners, should stay away from those who worship evil gods?
The ultimate goal of the Embers is to realize a world without gods, and let humans control the destiny of mankind. So what if those superior gods created humans? Human beings now have their own civilization and their own ideas.
Not only are the gods not happy with the development of human beings, but they are afraid of human beings' growing strength and try to curb human progress.
What a joke! The destiny of mankind is not bound by anything other than human beings! The Ashers firmly believe that with the development of mankind, we will step into a beautiful and happy future step by step. In that world, we alone can subvert the
The gods of society are undoubtedly superfluous and the enemies of mankind.
In order to achieve the independence of mankind, the Ashmen use any means necessary. Destroying temples and killing priests is just trivial. Some Ashmen have infiltrated the upper echelons of believers, corrupting the entire theocratic society from the inside, making people feel disappointed in the temple from the bottom of their hearts.
And those gods that even the true believers or the fanatic believers disguised by the Ashes could not distinguish, made the Ashes believe that the gods are by no means omnipotent.
Fighting for their entire lives for humanity, even to the point of abandoning their own gods - the Embers believe that they are noble and pure, and cannot be put in the same category as ordinary cultists.
Windspeaker was indeed a great leader, but he worshiped an evil god. That kind of sacrifice based on people, villages, and cities made the Ashmen feel sick. Even if nothing happened today, they
Sooner or later, you will have to exit the South Wind Ring.
Not only are there different problems, but the way South Wind Ring behaves has attracted a large number of enemies. For example, the madman who treats them as toys at the moment.
The Embers were absentmindedly looking for the corpses of their comrades, while also being wary of those around them.
They have not forgotten that in the second game before, a comrade was killed by someone around him. Even if someone was controlled by the madman, because of this, anyone around them would suddenly lose consciousness.
The possibility of killing everyone.
In this situation where everyone had their own thoughts and were distracted, it took three or four minutes for someone to shout loudly: "The body...the body has been found!"
Oaklifor suddenly raised his head, took three steps and two steps at a time, and then hurried away in that direction. Although it took three or four minutes for someone to find him, when Oaklifor saw a large number of people gathered together in silence,
He had only been gone for less than half a minute.
When he got into the crowd, Oak Cliff fell silent.
A middle-aged man wearing an Ember robe had a vine wrapped around his neck and hung high on a wing tree.
Finally, raging anger burned in Oakliford's chest.
The discovery of this body made him angry. Although he joined the Ashes with his own intentions, he had already regarded everyone as his family in the six months of getting along. No, the people here were better than him
The people at home are much gentler.
During dinner last night, this middle-aged man was still talking to him about the words that the Ashers often said, and he proudly showed him photos of his two daughters. He even gave them to him as far away as Farah.
If the children bought Bantha's specialties, the specialties are now placed in Oak Cliff's package.
But now he will never be able to see his children. Even the way to die is so humiliating.
hanging.
In any country, this is a punishment that can only be used to execute people who commit serious crimes. Above it, there are only three punishments: burning, crucifixion and injection of silver.
The latter three are used to punish traitors, rebels and blasphemers respectively. These three crimes are extremely serious crimes that are not condoned in any country and will even be bypassed by amnesty orders.
Even if he died by injecting silver, Oak Cliff would not feel so angry. When they swore to become Ashmen, they cut open the palm of their left hand with a silver table knife and dropped a drop of mercury into it, showing that they would not be afraid of being injected with silver in this life.
crime.
Oak Clifford's fists clenched loudly. At this time, the person around him silently handed him a note.
"Found it at his feet."
The man explained.
Oak Cliff opened the note with trembling hands, only to find that the handwriting this time was particularly sloppy: "How about this surprise? You bunch of bastards! Scum that deserves to be crushed by wheels!"
"Fifteen seconds - no! Ten seconds! Five seconds! Now!"
"I'm going to let you idiots see your father's wrath——"
Before he even finished reading, he felt someone behind him lightly touch his shoulder. He suddenly shook violently, and the anger in his heart was immediately extinguished and turned into a stronger fear.
He turned around with his neck almost stiff, but for some reason he was glad in his heart that he did not see the sight of a river of blood. At this time, a young Ashman was trembling and holding his shoulders, shaking desperately and almost vomiting.
"After... behind... just now... the body..."
He was shaking violently, and his whole body was like sieving chaff.
Oak Clifford immediately hugged him hard. Although he was also full of fear in his heart, he did not show it on the outside. He just patted the Ashes disciple, who was only about ten years old, on the back: "Tell me, Ake."
Ma, what happened next?"
"Broken... broken! Listen... I heard something moving here. The moment I turned around... the moment I turned around... Norton was broken! Broken!"
The young man named Akma said incoherently: "In the blink of an eye, I swear in the blink of an eye, Norton was chopped into pieces by something! There was no sound or movement, and all the internal organs were intact.
Before, the head was chopped into pieces... vomit..."
At this point, he finally couldn't bear the nausea mixed with severe fear, so he lowered his head and vomited it out.
Oak Cliff stood there dumbfounded, feeling that the whole world was getting further and further away from him.
After finally coming back to his senses, he felt his teeth were numb. He patted Akma's shoulder lightly, wanting to give him some strength but not wanting to shake himself even more.
In order to prevent the trembling in his voice from leaking out, he had no choice but to suppress his voice and ask: "Over there...is there a note on the ground? It looks like this."
"Yes... I'm sorry, I didn't read it..."
"Then you go back now and take a look at it for me. If there is any, bring it. Norton can no longer be buried. I will try to get Uncle Charlie down from the tree first. I can't bear the thought of our colleagues being hanged.
die."
Saying this, Oak Clifford walked under the tree. The moment he walked around behind the tree inadvertently, he seemed to feel something, and Oak Clifford's eyes widened instantly.
The incredible joy paralyzed his brain. After another two or three seconds, he finally settled down, turned around and shouted loudly to his friends outside his field of vision: "Everyone, come to me! The interference of the heart of nature ends here.
We’ve reached our limit! Hurry! Get out of here and go find Lord Windspeaker!”
Everyone was still immersed in the shadow of their partners dying one after another, and many people were even ready to die. But then Oak Clifford's shout suddenly came. They were stunned for a few seconds before realizing the meaning of the words.
After that, they all ran at extreme speed in that direction.
“It really works!”
"I feel it again!"
The Ashes who escaped from the border almost escaped death and wept with joy.
After standing there and enjoying their hard-won safety, the Embers suddenly remembered that there was a madman behind them. Although their legs were still a little weak, they ran away on the road.
Even though their hearts are filled with hatred for the Wind Whisperer, his strength will be their only support at this moment.
They ran in chaos, completely losing the orderliness they had when they came. At this time, no one remembered Marco, and no one paid attention to Oak Cliff, so Oak Cliff had to climb up the tree by himself and put the middle-aged man down.
He got down, carried his body and ran away in the direction of freedom.
As for how they will talk about this matter with the remaining half of the Ashes after they return, and what they will think of the Windtalkers and Howlers after they are safe, that is another matter.
At this time, as long as they look back, they will find the dark eyes watching them leave on the branches of a certain wing tree.
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