"The guardian spirit has given us clean food and water..."
"The guardian spirit gives us warmth and light..."
"The guardian spirit protects our safety..."
"Guardian spirits protect us from invasion..."
In an unknown church in an unknown village, pious and serious chanting is mixed with casual and perfunctory chanting.
The villagers gathered in front of a vague human-shaped rock. The prostrate old people, women and children were pious and serious, while the men and young people were lazy and perfunctory.
After hastily finishing the noon prayer, the men ignored the villagers who started praying for the second time and gathered at the entrance of the church as the storm subsided.
The lingering sound of prayers in the church made a figure grab a straw poncho unbearably.
"I can't wait any longer!"
The man rushed into the rain.
"rupee!"
Exclamations rang out from the crowd, and a young man rushed out.
The remaining people looked at each other, some stayed, and some followed them out of the rain.
The noise at the door of the church did not affect the remaining people. They were sheltered in the church, praying in low voices, as if it had been like this forever...
…
Wow——
The rainwater poured out from the poncho taken off poured into the ditch along the cracks of the bricks.
Oil lamps lit up the dark houses.
"I've almost had enough..."
Ruby, who put down the oil lamp, whispered to the figure who followed him: "Our life is getting worse and worse, but the guardian spirit never lets us go out. It is said that yesterday another villager who wanted to run out was captured..."
"But the Guardian Spirit has no reason to deceive us..." Thor hesitated.
"Who knows, maybe it has changed and no longer wants to protect us."
At this time, the wind and rain rushing into the door brought a tidal crashing sound.
"What sound?"
"It seems like there was movement by the river." Ruby suddenly had an idea, "Saul, don't you think this is a good opportunity to verify the truth..."
"You want to go out?" Thor suppressed his exclamation: "The guardian spirit will find us..."
"What can we do!" The crazy idea of going out quickly expanded, squeezing out the little sanity left by Lu Lu. "We only need to say that we heard a strange noise and went to check. Even if we are discovered, we will only be detained for a few days..."
"All right……"
Ruby and Thor put on their ponchos, carried hemp ropes and pitchforks, and quietly left the village under the rain, approaching the riverside where the sound came from.
Then, they saw a strange shape stranded on the shore, with a shadow crawling next to it.
Thor opened his eyes wide and reached for Ruby to tell him that there really was a monster, but he couldn't touch anything.
Because Ruby walked around to the side of the shadow without knowing when, raised the pitchfork and stabbed it hard. After a dull sound that seemed like an illusion, Ruby's ecstatic shout came from the front:
"I got it! I got it!"
Ruby bravely and Saul tied up the captured monster with hemp rope and dragged it back to the village.
The noise they made earlier caused the villagers near the river, who watched in horror and amazement as the Lubisol brothers returned to the village with a pale figure.
"Expose its deceit...I want to expose its deceit..."
Ruby, who was whispering along the way, asked Saul to summon the villagers who had left the church early. He stood in the rain and kicked over the tied monsters at the gathered villagers and warriors.
"These are the 'monsters' we caught outside the village." Ruby tugged at the hemp rope, and the swaying pale outline made them retreat in fear, "They are not scary... they are not scary!"
Ruby picked up a stone and threw it at the motionless silhouette.
"See! We were deceived. Those weird beasts are just like wild beasts! Worse than a sheep! They are not scary at all!"
Gradually, some villagers picked up stones and threw them at the tied monster, and the monster that seemed to be dead and motionless made them more and more crazy.
"Kill it! Kill it!"
"Kill it!"
"Overthrow it!"
The angry spearhead gradually pointed at the guardian spirit. Ruby suddenly stopped the angry villagers: "We can't kill it yet!"
"Those stupid villagers still think that the guardian spirits are protecting them. We want more people to know that they are living a lie..."
Ruby walked towards the monster, stepped on the pale figure's chest and pulled out the pitchfork.
The monster made a muffled sound of pain.
"Keep it in the dark room...the place where those people kept us!"
The fearful villagers dragged the monster to the dark room, released the imprisoned villagers, told them the truth, and then threw the monster into the dark room.
In the dark corner covered with damp haystacks, the monster lay quietly until it gathered some strength and slowly turned over, revealing a cold and pale face.
Lu Li recalled what he heard and saw while being dragged along, and realized that he had dramatically arrived at the "last vital habitat" he was looking for in the Farmland Garden.
It's just that he came to this village not as a savior, but as a monster.
What is equally bad is the wound that is bleeding. It seems that the villagers will ignore him for a short time and will not treat the wound...
Rustling——
The haystack next to him suddenly arched up. Lu Li reluctantly turned his head, and his peripheral vision fell on the shadow moving in the corner.
There is another villager in this house.
But as he got closer, Lu Li smelled a fishy smell like rot.
This huge stench even made Lu Li, who was weak and seriously injured, gag. He made a rough retching sound, and suddenly spit out a section of inactive tentacles. Then, Lu Li felt that he could speak.
"Why...are you still here?"
He has been quarantined by the villagers himself.
"I am a patient." A green voice sounded.
His eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and through the faint light of the oil lamp on the wall, Lu Li saw that it was a thin body with ulcers all over the body. The hay was stuck to the skin, and he didn't know if it was growing together with the flesh and blood.
He looks even weirder than Lu Li.
Lu Li remembered that the medicines on his body included anti-inflammatory drugs: "Stay closer to me."
Without feeling any fear or panic, the young man lay down and crawled towards Lu Li as he said, "They said monsters will bewitch us, and our souls will be sucked if we listen to them."
"Are you scared?"
"I'm not afraid."
"Why."
"I'm going to die."
"Maybe not." Lu Li said to the boy who came with a strong smell, "Can you help me?"
"I won't bail you out."
"Just apply some medicine to my wound and bite it in your pocket. Ashes are also fine."
The boy obediently rummaged through Lu Li's pocket, and then applied the medicine according to the instructions. He inevitably touched the wound during the process, and Lu Li's frown and groan were concealed by the rain.
The bleeding hole in his stomach finally stopped bleeding, but Lu Li no longer had the strength to resist.
"Thank you." Lu Li said, and then asked the boy to find two anti-inflammatory pills. He took one and gave one to the boy.
"What is this? It's so painful..."
"Don't throw up."
You can imagine the boy frowning as he swallowed the pills. After hearing the swallowing sound in the darkness, Lu Li said, "Heal the injury on your skin."
The boy was quiet for a while, remembering the rustling sound, and then crawled over and reached out to touch Lu Li's lips: "Here you go."
Lu Li opened his mouth and let what looked like a piece of dirty mud stuff into his mouth.
