The first ray of sunlight fell through the cracks in the dilapidated iron house and fell right on Daniel's forehead.
Being hit by this sunlight, the young man couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, so he opened his eyes slightly.
He woke up and found himself lying on a tattered sofa.
"Huh?" He couldn't help but groaned. He originally thought that he would die suddenly due to the poison and would never see the sun tomorrow again. Unexpectedly, the succubus' poison failed to kill him.
He only felt sore all over his body, and while he struggled to get up from the sofa, he was also glad that he had survived. When he realized this, he opened his dry and cracked mouth, and shouted with his hoarse throat: "Bart
!Bart? Are you still there?! Look, I’m still alive------"
Pa Chi. He just climbed down from the sofa and wanted to go to his half-brother to announce the good news, but at the same time, he stepped on something wet and soft.
Daniel lowered his head and looked curiously at what was on the ground. This sight made his pupils dilate rapidly in fright.
That's a pool of flesh and blood!
As if someone exploded from the inside out, the pool of flesh and blood spread out radially in the dilapidated hall and scattered all over the floor.
Normally, such a pool of flesh and blood should be dead, but in fact it is not. The flesh and blood scattered on the ground still has a pulse, and the traces of blood vessels are also involved in various internal organs whose shapes are indistinguishable, and they are beating.
With.
That ugly pool of flesh and blood was still alive, or in other words, was still breathing in some strange way. The only thing Daniel could clearly distinguish was the still beating heart in the center of the pool of flesh and blood.
"This is..." Daniel was frightened and didn't know how to react.
Until, he identified from the torn pieces of clothes on the ground that they were ----------Bart's clothes!
"Ba, Bart...?!" Daniel gasped.
Could this piece of flesh and blood that was still alive in front of him really be his brother?!
"I...I'm...sorry...Brother...Brother..." It made a staccato sound, although Daniel no longer knew which part was the lungs and throat of this squirming mass of flesh and blood: "This is...
...The only...way to save you..."
"...I'm...sorry...about this...everything..." After saying that, the squirming mass of flesh and blood could no longer make any other sound.
Daniel, who thought he had returned to the human world, instantly fell into the eternal hell again:
Around six o'clock in the morning, the bright sunshine in the morning converged and was gradually replaced by dark clouds. There was a gray drizzle in the sky, which was continuous and suffocating.
Swish, swish, swish.
Shovel after shovel, the boy dug in the soil with a broken shovel in the woods near the slum area.
Beside that, there was a coffin-like wooden box containing an unknown object.
Fortunately, it was early in the morning, and fortunately it was in such a barren mountain and wilderness that almost no one cares about. Otherwise, no matter who it is, if they lightly glance at the contents of the coffin while passing by, they will probably be frightened half to death.
It was not a rotting corpse, nor a murder weapon, nor a treasure. It was a mass of flesh and blood, squirming, flesh and blood that looked dead but actually managed to stay alive.
Daniel took a breath and stopped digging.
He turned his head and looked at the horrible and abominable mass of flesh, his eyes filled with sadness.
He took out a small knife from his arms, and stabbed the squirming mass of flesh and blood with the knife again, as he had done thousands of times. He stabbed dozens of times crazily, until his energy was exhausted and he was breathing like an ox.
Stop.
However, the mass of flesh and blood was not killed. Even if it was pierced through a heart-like organ, even if it was bleeding and bloody, the mass of flesh and blood was still alive, and was constantly recovering from the superficial wounds.
Just like the monsters Daniel had seen before, that ball of flesh and blood was immortal, or it had a strong self-healing ability and could not be easily killed. However, that ball of flesh and blood was not considered alive. That thing was both
Neither alive nor dead, in a nightmare-like state of half-death.
So, the young man dropped the bloody knife, knelt in front of the coffin and sobbed softly.
The mass of flesh and blood in front of him was originally his younger brother, his only relative in the world. However, his younger brother became like this, and he couldn't even help his younger brother to escape.
He could not save anyone, he could not protect anything, he was alone and had no life to love. He cried silently, and his cry was full of emptiness. He dug a hole to bury the coffin, but he did not dare to start, because he didn't know
Should I just bury my still-living "brother" alive in the soil?
However, he stared at the pit quietly, and finally did not bury the coffin in it. Instead, he lay down in the pit. The young man lying in the pit looked up at the sky in a daze. His tears fell quietly, but he did not
Know who to cry for.
He just lay in the pit looking up at the sky and crying, and fell asleep as he cried. Of course, his sleep was not really a deep sleep, it was just a slight wandering of consciousness.
In the haze, someone's figure appeared in front of Daniel.
Poke, poke, poke. The boy felt a little itchy on his face, as if someone was poking his face with a small wooden stick.
"Ugh..." The young man opened his eyes.
As his vision gradually turned from hazy to clear, the appearance of a young girl emerged.
"Good morning." The girl with cherry red hair, as graceful as water, greeted Daniel with a smile.
"Uh...morning..." The young man was a little at a loss and didn't know how to answer the other person's question.
"Are you sleeping here?" The girl then asked, "The place where you sleep is so strange. Shouldn't the place where you humans sleep be called a house? Shouldn't you generally sleep on the bed?"
Daniel was stunned again, not knowing what to say to this wonderful girl. Only when he saw the girl's pointed ears and recognized that the girl might be an elf did he realize that this girl
The elf girl may have rarely set foot in the human world, so she extremely lacks common sense in the human world, so she asked the strange question just now.
"...I...just...tired..." Daniel wiped the tears from his eyes and crawled out of the pit.
"Are you crying?" the girl asked again, "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere? Are you injured somewhere?"
"No. I...I'm fine..." The boy didn't want to make a fool of himself in front of the girl, so he continued to show off.
"This child here is also very good?" At this time, the girl also noticed the wriggling mass of flesh and blood in the coffin.
"Uh!" Daniel felt as if someone had instantly pierced his chest with a sharp sword. He couldn't breathe out, and his voice was choked with sobs.
"He's not very good, so you're worried, right?" The elf girl seemed to be able to see through people's hearts: "That's why you're crying, right?"
"I've already said, I'm not crying." Daniel turned his face away, avoiding contact with the girl's eyes. But who could he deceive? Even he felt that he was too naive. There were circles around his eyes.
The redness and swelling that appeared and the tears shining in the corners of his eyes all gave him away.
"Hmm~ Really?" The girl didn't know if she really believed it or if she deliberately didn't expose Daniel. She just mentioned it in one sentence. At the same time, her attention was already focused on the lump of meat in the coffin: "This child is so pitiful. I always feel that
You seem to be crying? Did you get some disease that made you look like this?"
"I don't know." The young knight replied in a low voice. He really didn't know. He only knew that his brother Bart should have done something last night, something like an equivalent exchange. Daniel was saved because of this,
But Bart has become like this... He can't live, he can't die.
"So, do you know how to cure him?" the girl asked again.
"...I don't know." Daniel replied again. He didn't even know if Bart could be cured when he became like this. All he felt in his heart was despair.
"Do you know how to save him?" The young man who was already in the abyss of despair asked accidentally.
Unfortunately, this is not a fairy tale, a novel, or a drama. There are not so many coincidences in this world. The elf girl shook her head at the knight boy: "Well, I don't know at all."
"Then you still------"
"But don't you humans have a saying? Well, what's it called?" The girl struggled to recall, and then she exclaimed with a sudden realization, "------[Never give up hope]."
Yes, that's what he said."
The young man had a gloomy face: "But I don't think there is any hope..."
"Never give up hope." The girl repeated to the boy with her hearty smile like the morning light: "Isn't this child still alive? As long as he is still alive, it will never be too late, and it will never be too late.
There is hope."
It was a sweet smile that was absolutely irresistible. That smile seemed to contain a demonic quality that could be used to brainwash people. Although it had no magic power in itself, it was also so holy that it was completely different from evil heretics like hypnotism.
That smile seemed to be hope itself, and it only took one smile to cheer up the already discouraged young man.
"You... you may be right." Daniel whispered: "Maybe... maybe Bart can return to his original form. Yes. Why should I give up so early. Maybe I can still rescue Bart."
The young man looked at the squirming mass of flesh and blood in the coffin and shed two lines of tears. This time, he no longer covered it up in front of the girl.
"Wait for me, Bart. Brother will definitely let you restore your original shape. No matter how long it takes, no matter how many disasters you have to go through...brother will definitely...!"
He couldn't continue talking because he was already sobbing, his throat was completely choked with grief, and he knelt in front of the coffin helplessly.
"Okay, be good ------" the elf girl gently patted the knight boy's back: "Don't cry, everything will be fine."
Daniel just continued to cry.
After the boy was tired from crying and fell asleep, the girl walked away from the boy. She waved her hand, and countless branches appeared out of thin air on the ground, surrounding Daniel and the coffin containing Bart. The branches turned into walls and beds, like a
He lifted Daniel up high like a bird's nest and carried him in his pocket, allowing the boy to sleep peacefully in the temporary wooden nest away from the moisture and insects on the ground.
"Please have a sweet dream," the girl said softly.
"Lord Gaia." A voice in the distance called, "Where are you? We have been looking for you for a long time."
"Here we come, Multani." The elf girl heard the other party's call, then responded and walked in the direction of the person who was looking for her.