"The environment is nice." Palamedes walked into the box carefully and closed the door. As soon as the door was closed, the noise outside was blocked by the well-insulated box walls, and the whole box suddenly became much quieter.
"Oh, little Palamy, my little brother!" Philaeos opened his arms and gave Palamedes a warm hug as soon as he came up. He hugged him so hard that Palamedes could almost hear himself
The scream of the bones in the body.
"It's going to hurt..." the leopard warrior said gloomily.
"Oh, hehe, I'm sorry." Phileos let go of Paramides: "The bones are still as brittle as ever, my little Paramides!"
"Nonsense!" The leopard man warrior walked to the sofa, sat down side by side with Phileos, and reached for another glass of wine on the table: "Let me talk first, I can drink with you, but I already have a wife.
I'm afraid that my wife Vivian will be unhappy--so don't ask those random escort girls to come, okay?"
"I knew you would say that, so I sent them away beforehand." Phileos leaned back on the sofa and took a leisurely sip of whiskey, "Don't worry, it's just us two brothers here tonight to reminisce.
, there are no activities that are inappropriate for children."
"Hmm." Paramedis also took a sip of whiskey. The fine wine rippled in the leopard warrior's throat, and the strong alcohol slightly burned the big cat's tongue.
"Remember?" Philaeos put a hand on Palamedes's shoulder and whispered: "When we were little devils, that time we stole a worm from the cargo of a human merchant ship.
A bottle of wine. A group of us little fools opened a bottle of wine in a secret base to try it out. It was our first time drinking."
"And we were unlucky and got the strongest Crow Tequila." Palamedes recalled that he was still frightened and shuddered: "Uh-huh, when that thing slid into the throat, it was like fire.
The drunkenness is simply terrifying."
"Hahahahaha, yes, everyone was very drunk that day. When they got up the next day, the floor was covered with last night's food!" Phileos chuckled, "You kid will get drunk immediately after one sip.
You even took off your clothes and rolled around in the snow outside, saying stupid things like "I'm going to burn." As a result, you got pneumonia and stayed in bed for two weeks."
Palamedes' face turned red: "Don't mention that kind of thing..."
"So?" Phileos changed the topic and asked: "What happened to everyone in the thieves group? Are there any alive?"
Palamedes's face suddenly darkened: "They are all dead...Leannas, Caddis, Rem, Iscanna...all starved to death in the famine when I was ten years old. Torres and
Baan died in the plague. Cerdis and Sandas were killed by humans during the attack on human merchant ships when I was thirteen. In the end, I was the only one left, fourteen.
When I was 20 years old, I joined the army and followed the Hackett clan leader...in order to avenge mankind. Now that I think about it, I was really stupid at the time."
"Oh?" Phileos let out a low sigh, seeming to ask.
"That scumbag Hackett is the culprit of everything." Palamedes took another sip of wine, and his anger seemed to evaporate with the smell of his wine, turning into looming smoke: "You know what? We
This group of orphans originally had parents. However, in order to solve the population problem at that time, the leader of the Grik tribe restricted the births of parents in each tribe, keeping only the first child, and discarding the second and subsequent children into the wilderness to let them
We are left to fend for ourselves...and that is us. We orphans were not abandoned by our biological parents on our own initiative, but because of the policy at the time."
After hearing this, Phileos's face was as calm as water: "I've heard of this too."
"You also know?!" Palamedes looked at Philaeos in disbelief: "Then why did you..."
"The policy at that time was like this, and there was nothing we could do about it." Phileos smiled flatly: "In other words, I should be grateful to Chief Hackett. He just exiled us to the wilderness instead of directly sending us to the wilderness."
We threw ourselves into the river or into the lair of monsters. Although he was a leopard scum, he at least gave us a chance to survive."
The Leopard Warrior looked at his brother in disbelief, surprised by Phileos's generosity: "I didn't expect you to be so open-minded, Phileos."
"Why not?" Phileos took another sip of wine: "Anyway, it was more than thirty years ago, so let the past go. Now it's just you and me, little Palla."
Mi, my good brother."
"About this matter..." The Leopard Warrior also looked at Phileos with a puzzled face: "I also have a lot of questions to ask you."
"You want to know why I'm still alive, right?" Phileos held the crystal wine glass and shook it gently. The ice cubes in the glass collided lightly with the inner wall of the glass, making a beautiful sound: "I can tell you everything."
, but this will be a very, very long story, and its content may make you feel uneasy. After listening to all this, you may even dislike me --- Even so, are you still going to listen?
"
"No, I will not dislike you, Philaeos. No matter what happens to you, you are still my brother. To me, who is an orphan, you are my brother."
Palamedes looked at his adopted brother sincerely: "You were obviously dead at that time. How did you survive? What have you experienced over the years? How did you find yourself in the big casino in Cairo?"
I want to know everything about this job..."
"Very good." Phileos breathed a long sigh of relief, as if relieved: "Then... where should I start?"
He took out a dagger from his waist and cut his arm without warning.
"Philaeos?!" Palamedes saw the blood coming out of his friend's arm and jumped up in fright: "Are you crazy?!"
"Calm down. Watch carefully." Phileos smiled sadly and cut off a piece of flesh on his arm with a dagger.
No, it should be said that it was torn off. He made an incision on his arm, and immediately followed the incision and tore off a palm-sized piece of his animal hide and fur.
He dropped the bloody piece of flesh on the table and took a deep breath: "Haha... look at it, look at it carefully."
After being skinned, Phileos's arm, which should have been bloody and bloody, was regenerating at an alarming rate. Within a quarter of an hour, Phileos' injured arm returned to its original shape, and even the blue leopard
The hair has also grown out.
"This is... super recovery power?!" Palamedes swallowed.
"Yes, the same super recovery power as the White Bear." Phileos put away the dagger and replied in a slightly breathy voice: "I was caught by humans and stripped of all my fur. I thought I was going to die.
...Suddenly awakened this ability. In order to survive."
"Unbelievable!" Palamedes' eyes couldn't help but focus on Phileos' arm. There was almost no trace on the arm except a little blood, and the new hair completely covered the old wound.
Cover up the thrilling scene just now.
"The price for acquiring this ability is that I lose the ability to transform and can no longer use the madness technique." Phileos added: "Moreover, this ability not only saved me, but also almost plunged me into eternal damnation."
In this hell, you can neither survive nor die."
The Leopard Man leaned on the sofa, closed his eyes, and began to reminisce.
At first it was just a thought.
I want to be full, I want to be warm, I want to live happily.
So, he teamed up with a group of wanderers to scavenge in the wilderness, sometimes hunting monsters, sometimes robbing human merchant ships, and sometimes crossing the border between Rome and the Grik tribe at night to steal things from human towns.
This group of thieves composed of leopard children has never been so rampant.
And everything is just for survival.
In order to survive, he believed that doing so was a natural thing, and he and his friends never had any doubts about it.
The little wild cats no one wants or loves, even if they eat sin and cover themselves with filth, they still have to live.
Countless of their predecessors have been caught, killed, and even brutally skinned by humans; but their members can always be replenished - there is never a shortage of these abandoned children in the wilderness, and they do not hesitate to die no matter how much they die.
I thought that if I kept working like this, I would one day seize happiness.
Until that day, his dream was shattered. The [crime] he committed brought him eternal consequences.
"Run, Parami!" the young man shouted, watching his fled brother, far away from this place of right and wrong.
His brother was walking towards life, and he knew he was heading towards death, because at that time, he had been pinned to the ground by several strong human men.
Half of the band of thieves escaped, while the other half were left behind.
As if planned, as if it was another reincarnation, what happened to the senior thieves happened to Phileos again.
The leopard boy is good at running away, and humans have long known this. The humans cruelly broke Phileos' legs with a heavy stone hammer, so that the boy could no longer escape. The pain pierced his heart, and the leopard boy was dizzy.
It rises, and I see stars in my eyes.
In his gradually darkening vision, the other two companions beside him had become cold corpses. One was shot through the head by an arrow, and the other was hit hard by an ax from behind and died from excessive blood loss.
Kill immediately.
These crazy and greedy humans couldn't wait to take out their knives and cut into the bodies of these dead leopard men.
Cutting, one knife after another, separated the fur of the leopard men from the muscles and fat.