"Hey hey hey." Two children were sitting on the roof of a scrapped car on the garbage, eating lunch and talking and laughing.
"That's a masterpiece!" The younger boy chuckled and said, "Can you believe it? What he found in the bushes was actually just a small, non-venomous pig-nosed snake, only as thick as a finger, but
That idiot Rick was so scared that he peed his pants and ran away while crying for his mother! Oh, I really wish you could have been there to witness that scene, the way that idiot ran away was so funny!"
"Hahaha!" the older boy laughed over and over again while stuffing the dry and rough bread into his mouth. He had never been used to eating this kind of food before, but now he can eat it with relish.
Put rough things in his mouth --- as long as there is a companion beside him talking to him to distract his attention.
"Well, Bart?" The older boy smiled enough and his expression gradually became serious: "I want to tell you something... I may have to leave soon."
"Oh?" The other party was not too touched.
"[Oh]? Only [Oh]? You have nothing else to say?"
"Why should I say anything else?" The younger boy said, "People come and go. In this slum and garbage dump, it is a normal thing. Sometimes they have good luck and never leave.
The status of the poor is upgraded to civilians, and then they will leave and spit on this stinky ghost place. Or sometimes these people have greater bad luck and cannot even keep their current life. These people
Will disappear forever...no one will ever see them again.------Which one are you, Daniel?"
The older boy was silent for a while: "I...my application to join the Knights has been approved. In a few days, I will enter the Knights of Great Britain. Of course, I will start as a trainee knight."
."
"Ah, that's a good situation. Congratulations." The younger boy replied calmly.
"Uh, that's it? Just congratulate me?" The older boy frowned: "Don't you have anything else to say?"
The younger boy smiled calmly: "So what do you want me to say to you? To keep you?"
The older boy fell into silence for a while.
"Goodbye, Daniel." The younger boy said calmly: "In other words, it's better not to say goodbye. You have a bright future, and there is no need to come back to this smelly slum."
"My home is still here and I won't move away." The older boy said.
"No," another young man said ruthlessly: "Your home has never been here, and you have never belonged here. All people in this world are divided into groups. Some people are born trash and belong here."
It is a garbage dump, and some other people, no matter how depraved they are, have nothing to do with this garbage dump."
"I..." The older boy wanted to say something else.
"Let's go, Daniel." The younger boy said coldly: "After you leave, don't come back again. You should despise this place, because it is a stain on your life."
The older boy frowned and walked away without looking back.
(You are always like this.)
(I thought we were friends, thought we could understand each other.)
(But you never play your cards according to common sense.)
(Because of fear and shame, when I want to stay away from you, you always come towards me with a smile.)
(And when I thought we were friends and wanted to show my kindness to you and share the joys and sorrows with you, you pushed me away coldly.)
(What an awkward character you have.)
(Yes. I was confused at first and thought it was just your personality.)
(But in fact, you are hiding a huge secret from me.)
On the morning when the older boy set out to become an apprentice knight, the younger boy still appeared in front of his house.
"Here, here is the lunch box." The younger boy handed over a box. Even in this slum where there was a lack of material and everywhere was dirty, the boy still tried his best to wrap the lunch box as decently as possible with a clean rag.
stand up.
"I thought you wouldn't show up again, Bart." The older boy took the lunch box carefully.
"I didn't want to come. But look, isn't Auntie admitted to the hospital? I was thinking that you might have gone out without even preparing a lunch box. If you are hungry and look for food outside at noon, it will probably cost a lot of money."
"Well..." The older boy put away his lunch box and was silent. He couldn't bear to tell the other person that the knights actually provided free lunch.
"Well, goodbye." The younger boy murmured in a low voice: "I know you won't come back often after you leave. I know that after you become famous in the Knights, you will spurn this dirty and smelly place.
.I know that you will soon forget me and everything in this slum. I know that my friend will become a shame in your life after you become famous. So, from today on, let’s pretend that we don’t know each other.
It’s good for everyone.”
"I'm still coming back, Bart." However, the older boy replied calmly.
His friend shook his head, turned around and hurried away.
(now.)
(Love and hate.)
(You are my disaster and my salvation.)
(You have become my shackles and the only motivation for my survival.)
Daniel looked at the squirming mass of flesh and blood in front of him.
At the darkest and most desperate moment in his life, he suddenly learned that his childhood best friend was actually his half-brother.
Just when he thought he had caught a glimpse of light and finally found his last relative in the world, his brother turned out like this.
(What sin did I commit to have a brother like you?)
"Ahhhhhhhh! ------" He wailed and screamed, falling from despair into a deeper despair.
And this time, he is closer to madness.
(Will there really be redemption this time?)
(Or is it that everything is already beyond repair?)
The black mist surrounding Daniel gradually dissipated, moved away from the young man, and regrouped somewhere else.
When Daniel came back from his daze, his mind went blank except for a sentence he had heard somewhere before.
------Those who stare into the abyss for a long time, the abyss will also stare into you.
The darkness opened its eyes--literally. A gap darker than darkness opened from the black mist. The gap and the black mist were an eyeball. It stared intently at the kneeling person.
Daniel was crying on the ground.
It was silently questioning the boy.
[Have you ever thought that your brother became like that because he was actually trying to save you?]
(Probably. No. Definitely. There is no other possibility.)
(That night, Bart could obviously watch me lose, then take away the treasure I left him, and live an extremely happy life from then on.)
(But he gave up all this, and I don’t know what he did to become what he is now.)
[This is all because of you.]
(Indeed, all this is my fault. Bart gave up his own life to save me. Not only did he die, but he became an ugly and painful person who couldn't live or die.
)
(If he is not changed back to his original form, he will live in pain in that ugly posture forever.)
(And all this is my fault!)
[Then, boy------]
[Desire, wish, hope, pray.]
[In order to fulfill your only wish, you must sink into deeper darkness.]
[At the end of the darkness, there may be the power to achieve your wishes.]
A deep black pit appeared in front of Daniel, with something like tar squirming in it. It seemed like a path of no return, a trap. Once you step on it, you will be swallowed into endless darkness. However,
Daniel did not refuse, and walked slowly towards the secret cave.
Because he has nothing to lose, he is fearless.------In other words, he is just giving up on himself. If the darkness will swallow him up, then he can at least get a trace of peace in eternal sleep, and never have to be beaten again.
Be troubled by despair.
As if he had an ominous premonition, Knight Persiva of the Round Table, who was supposed to go separate ways with Daniel, turned back and took another look at Daniel.
"No!" He saw the Black Iron Knight boy walking towards a mysterious dark cave, and stopped him loudly: "Stop! What are you doing?!"
But it was already too late. Daniel stepped into the dark cave and was immediately swept away by the dark vortex generated by the dark cave.
"Hmph." Knight of the Round Table Percival snorted. Then his face began to change, from a middle-aged man with a somewhat bookish temperament to a fair-faced young man with a cunning look on his face.
Because this so-called "Knight of the Round Table Percival" is actually not Knight of the Round Table at all. He is Oscar the Succubus, who injected the succubus' poison into Daniel's body before, turning the young Black Iron Knight into the deep-seated man he is today.
The Green Knight's, the culprit.
Oscar's original plan was to use the art of disguise to get close to Daniel and gradually persuade the young Black Iron Knight to join the dark camp. But he did not expect that Daniel would actually trigger some mechanism in this ancient ruins and fall into deeper darkness.
.
Oscar stared intently at the dark hole on the ground in front of him. The dark vortex gradually shrank, and was about to become so small that it disappeared completely. Oscar could have jumped in to chase Daniel at his own risk, but he hesitated to do so.
Even though they are succubi and have a deep understanding of the affairs of the ancient people, succubi like Oscar still cannot know all the secrets of the ancient gods and humans. It should be said that the succubi's knowledge of the ancient people is also pitiful------
If all the knowledge of the ancient gods and humans were compared to a vast ocean, humans would only get a drop of water in it, and the succubi would only get an area the size of a lake.
To put it simply, Oscar didn't know what the secret cave in front of him was. Because of the unknown, he was afraid and didn't dare to rush in. He was quite persistent in possessing Daniel, but he wasn't so obsessed that he risked his own life.
The point where you can catch up.
So he gave up on Daniel and allowed the dark hole to completely swallow up the Black Iron Knight boy, but he did nothing.
Daniel completely disappeared into the whirlpool of darkness, and Oscar sighed calmly: "Let's forget it. You idiot is asking for your own destruction, and I can't help you."
Then, Oscar the Succubus turned around and left with a comfortable expression on his face, as if what he had just lost was nothing important but just a dispensable toy.