The old man wields a shovel and digs dirt in the cemetery.
The oil lamp was placed under the tree next to him, and his name was engraved on the tombstone lying beside the soft mound: Acheson Rodney.
I don’t know whether Acheson Rodney is the old man’s name or the name of someone he knows.
In any case, this tomb was not prepared for Lu Li.
Sensing the person coming, the old man paused and said slowly: "Please wait a moment...it will be dug soon."
The excavation is coming to an end, and the shoveled earth pit can barely accommodate one person.
Lu Li held the oil lamp to dispel the fog, and his eyes fell on the old man's back. Occasionally he raised his head slightly and looked at the bloody tentacles hanging above his head.
Wow——
The last shovelful of soil fell on the mound. The old man inserted the shovel into the soil and used it as a crutch: "This thing is not entirely a bad thing. At least I still have the strength to dig a good grave for myself."
The old man turned to face Lu Li - no scary scene appeared, and his old face showed that he was just an ordinary old man.
"You know I'm coming?" Lu Li said. The old man's reaction seemed to be that he had been waiting here for a long time.
The old man seemed to have an inappropriate answer: "I know you, the person who competed with Richard for the body of the ancient god."
He really knew something.
"I've been investigating him, please tell me what you know."
"Of course..." What was rare was that finally a host was willing to tell everything. The old man smiled kindly and said, "I am very happy that I can still have a young man to talk to me before I die."
The old man's name is Acheson Rodney, the name written on the tombstone.
The Lord loves the people of the Kingdom of Dawn in the Mainland.
Before everything happened, he was just a father of two children in the countryside, living a peaceful life.
Richard ruined everything.
Acheson Rodney was not Richard's first choice. He was too old and needed a cane to walk. But the result was as Lu Li saw: the old man became the host of the bloody tentacles.
The old man would rather hope that Richard's initial target is him, so that his two sons will not die in vain. Nothing can make a father more desperate than learning about the death of his children.
There was no funeral or ceremony. The lonely old man took his son's body to an open space outside the forest, where the village's cemetery was used to bury the dead. Panting, he dug a pit and carried his son's body into the grave one after another, when something strange happened.
The dug pit turned into a staircase that continued to extend downward, and blood-red lightning-like tentacles emerged from the son's body and penetrated into the old man's forehead.
Acheson Rodney told Lu Li that Richard appeared at this moment and said to him who was lying on the ground in surprise: "I didn't expect it chose you..."
The old man couldn't understand what it meant, but his intuition told him that the man with a nervous smile in front of him was the culprit of everything - he wanted revenge, but he was too old, so he could only watch as Richard picked up the shovel and shoveled
Dirt was spilled into the grave.
Stretching downward, the blood-colored stairs seemed to have an invisible obstacle. His two sons fell on it, and the soil also fell on it.
Richard told him something while shoveling earth to bury the old man's son's body and steps.
For example, the death of the old man's son was indeed caused by him, such as his purpose of doing so.
Although he did not understand why this evil guy was willing to tell him his plan, the old man tried to write down every word he said.
Now, what he remembered has a use for it.
"As you guessed, their deaths were caused by me. Don't look at me with such hatred. How can a mortal like you understand the behavior of a god... Don't you understand yet? Look at this
The clouds never dissipate! This hopeless world is about to be shrouded in hope. Human beings who are as weak as ants are just talking about foolish dreams!"
The old man narrated what Richard had said. He did not intentionally imitate the tone, but the words could still remind people of the man's crazy shouting.
"You don't know what you are about to face, and I... only with the body of an ancient god can I protect everyone under their gaze! Huh? Evil? No, this is not evil. The birth of greatness is often accompanied by sacrifice.
, this is the inevitable path, you should be happy for your sons, because they died for their gods..."
After repeating what Richard had said, the old man felt depressed for a long time before continuing.
The tomb has been completely buried, leaving only a soft mound of soil that is different in color from the surrounding ground to tell what happened and what was buried.
Richard threw the shovel back to the old man. He finally told the old man that he would contact the old man after a while, and the old man who received the letter would go to Allen Peninsula to welcome the coming of God.
After saying this, Richard turned and left.
After becoming the host of the bloody tentacles, the old man's body gradually underwent some changes. For example, his physical strength was much better. Although he was not like a prime man, he was no longer an old man who needed crutches.
There are also bloody tentacles hanging from the depths of the clouds and falling above the head.
Not only himself, he also saw many bloody tentacles scattered everywhere.
There were especially many tentacles in the southeast - the old man knew that those were on the Allen Peninsula.
Every day, the old man observed these seaweed-like bloody tentacles that were dozens of miles long. Occasionally, new bloody tentacles would appear, and occasionally old bloody tentacles would disappear. But one day, he observed that the bloody tentacles were moving at an extremely fast speed.
disappeared, and they were all tentacles in the direction of Allen Peninsula.
He guessed who was dealing with them, and the old man was prepared. However, after all the bloody tentacles on Allen Peninsula disappeared, the changes became silent.
Three days ago, when Lu Li was preparing to leave for the Lennon Islands, the old man received a letter from Richard.
In the letter, Richard told the old man that God was about to resurrect and that he could only avoid death by going to the Allen Peninsula.
The old man decided to go there for revenge.
He took everything he could, including the shovel where his two sons were buried, and drove to the nearby port of Barnard's Forest to take a boat to Rodster Harbor on the Allen Peninsula.
During the voyage, the old man on the boat saw the last bloody tentacle disappearing in the direction of Allen Peninsula. This scene made the old man happy, and the man must have started taking action again.
He never believed in the "god" that Richard said. God should protect the world, not cause killing.
And since that person is blocking everything, then he is his friend.
Two days later, the old man landed at Rodster Harbor. Belfast on the coast was a completely different scenery from that inland. He had no intention of wandering around and temporarily stayed in a hotel near the church.
In the night shrouded in strange fog, the old man vaguely felt his impending death. So in the early morning, he took the tombstone that had been carved on the ship to the cemetery and dug a grave for himself. At the same time, he waited for Richard
