Chapter 45: Peake's Secret
"Goblins!" came to Pique's head as the hunter said his first words. "Do you like to read the alien species, the goblin species disappeared a thousand years ago. ”
When Agareth and Pique first met, they gave Pique a riddle about the unicorn, and today the riddle describes a race, goblins.
According to the book, the goblin race is very smart, and the legend is that it is many times smarter than humans, but this race has a big shortcoming - timid, so that any race dares to bully them, but now there is no goblin on the continent, and even, ninety-nine percent of the people do not have the concept of the word goblin in their minds at all, the reason why Pique knows is because he likes to read all kinds of books since he was a child, and likes to fantasize about legends.
Agareth smiled, and he wasn't surprised that Pique could answer, but what he didn't expect was that Pique could answer so quickly. "There aren't many people who know about this race. A look of remembrance appeared on Agareth's face, which gave Pique the illusion that Pique seemed to be recalling what happened a thousand years ago. "Boy, since you've seen the interracial record, let you choose one, which race do you think is the best?"
Pique went through the alien record in his mind, thinking that there were dozens of races on the continent a thousand years ago, and what kind of chaos the continent had to be at that time, "Of course I think the human race is the best." There was a pride in his tone. "The Terrans have learned the wrought iron of the dwarves, the archery of the elves, and the wisdom of the goblins, and almost all the advantages of all races, so they can survive in the long river of history. ”
"It looks like you're proud. Agareth's tone changed, and he stared at Peake playfully and said, "Have you ever thought that you are not human?"
Not human?
Hearing this, Pique was like a lightning strike!
He only felt an electric current rising from under his neck, making his face tingle, and now his face must have turned red.
He lifted his blue hat to make sure it was still on his head, and whispered, "I did think so." Regardless of the other soul in his body, Peake felt that there was another great secret in him! He felt regret that if that secret was revealed, he would most likely be captured by the knights of the Temple of Light and burned alive at the stake.
Still, Agareth can be trusted, as Pique has always felt.
"Sometimes I do feel like I'm not a human being. Peake whispered, as if muttering to himself: "Dear Mr. Agares, I will never forget your help to me, I am willing to share my secrets with you, I trust you!" Peake felt that Agareth was a respectable old man, without him, he might never see Haysjia again in his life, and he didn't even know what her name was.
Pique wanted to tell his secret, but Agareth smiled, shook his head and said, "Son, trust me, it's the stupidest thing you've ever done in your life." He gave Peake a meaningful look.
"Stupid, stupid!" cried the parrot, which had been silent on his shoulder, mimicking his tone. Agareth slowly walked out the door and disappeared into the night.
In the end, Pique didn't reveal the secret in his heart, but he had a feeling that Agareth the Hunter knew what he was thinking, and this feeling was always strong, and perhaps he already knew his secret......
As for that secret...... Peake took off his hat and touched the horns above his head......
"Peake, I thought you were home?" Ryder suddenly entered, and Peake put on his hat.
"I'm getting ready to go home...... Did you send Dolly home?"
"It's been sent back a long time ago!" Ryder mysteriously walked up to Peake and said, "Guess what I saw?"
"What do you see?" Peake unconsciously touched his hat.
"I saw Pisa riding out of town with Chief Amanda!" Ryder's expression was mysterious, as if he was telling a big secret.
"This ...... Does it have anything to do with us?" Peake wondered.
"Have you forgotten? During the day at the tailor's shop, that lamp-loading boy asked Chief Amanda to go to Willow Street in Joseph City!"
"What's wrong with Willow Street?"
"......" Ryder was speechless, he really didn't know whether to laugh at Pique's ignorance or lament Pique's innocence. "That's it...... Hualiu Street is a place to find women, do you understand? If a man does not have a wife, he can go to Hualiu Street to find a woman. ”
"But Chief Amanda has a wife. Peake asked ignorantly, "What are you looking for a woman for?"
"Uh...... Yes, of course...... What you love to do, don't ask so much, just come with me, there will be a chance to get revenge tonight!" Turning off the lights, Raidra rushed out of the carpenter's shop with Peake.
"What are you doing removing the bandage on my hand?" Outside the carpenter's shop, Peake watched Ryder's movements and wondered, "The medicine I just changed this morning, and we can change it again when we get home, what are we going to do when we take the bandage apart now?"
"What do you see here?" Ryder laughed, holding a brown bottle in his hand.
"Holy water?" Peake had gone to church with Ryder to buy holy water, so he recognized it at a glance. "You just went to buy holy water?"
"Hahahaha! It's cheap, you kid! Wait until you finish painting the wounds on your hands and then wipe some on your face, your face is not lightly injured. ”
Peake watched Ryder's actions, and his heart welled up with inexplicable emotion.
Outside the carpenter's shop, Big Black Feet had been waiting at the door for a long time, and Peake rode Big Black Feet and walked with Ryder towards the outside of town.
......
On the way to Joson, Peake asked, "Are you sure you don't need to go back to sleep? You didn't sleep all night yesterday, and if you toss like this, you're going to collapse." ”
"What is this? You can make Big Blackfoot hurry up, and we'll get to Joseph in half an hour!"
On the way, Peake hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Ryder, I want to talk to you about something. ”
"What's the matter?" asked Ryder, as he ran.
"Another secret about me. ”
"Impossible, we haven't left since we were kids, I don't know what secrets you have, don't tell you that you wore that red panties out today hahahaha!"
Peake rolled his eyes and said helplessly, "I'm serious." ”
"Okay, I'm listening, too. ”
"Stop first, Big Black Feet can't run anymore. Peake got off the back of Big Black and started walking.
Big Blackfoot's injuries weren't entirely healed either, and he didn't want to overwork Big Blackfoot.
Ryder didn't sleep all night yesterday, but he was still in good spirits today, and while feeling his monster physique, Peake also secretly looked at his head, and couldn't help but reach out and touch the top of his head.
Ryder shook his head and said, "Why are you touching my head?
"No, you don't. Alas!" Peake's tone was a little lost.
"Nothing, Peake, what are you doing? ”
"You can try touching my head. ”
Confused, Ryder reached out and carefully touched Peake's head. "Nothing, what are you touching your head?"
"You touch it again. ”
Ryder put his hand in his hair and groped it carefully, so hard, what?
Suddenly, Ryder's eyes widened and he exclaimed, "Peake, why do you have a horn on your head?"
"Be quiet!" Peake looked left and right, but luckily he was out of town now, and there was no one around.
"What's going on? I didn't find out before!" Ryder was shocked.
"If only I knew what was going on, I only knew that this horn was there since childhood, and as he grew older, he began to grow as he grew older, I remember when I was a child, it was the size of a fingernail, I touched it the other day, and it felt like it had grown to the size of a thumb, and I always had my bird's nest hair, and I wore the hat that my father left me, also to block the horns on my head. Peake remembered the dream of falling into the abyss the other day, and it seemed that from that time, the horns on his head began to grow slowly.
"Why did you tell me about such an important thing now?" Ryder frowned, his tone a little reproachful, "you don't think of me as a brother at all, and besides, it's not necessarily a bad thing. ”
"When I was a child, I didn't think it was anything unusual, I thought other people had it, but when I grew up, the horns on my head also grew, and I realized that I was different from others, and I didn't tell you because I was afraid of ......."
"Afraid of what?"
"You shouldn't know. Peake's face was slightly bitter: "There is a book on my grandfather's bookshelf, called the Alien Record, which introduces various races, most of which existed a thousand years ago, such as dwarves and elves...... Now there are no more of them on the mainland. In that book, a race of human-looking people is introduced, but they are not humans, and they are distinguished from humans by horns on their heads. ”
"Go on!" Ryder suddenly realized the gravity of the situation.
"The Alien Records record that the appearance is generally the same as that of humans, but the race with horns on its head is called ...... Demons!"