The Sea of Fire

Vol. 4 Departure and Leave City (赤夕, forced separation. )

Chapter 4 Nevbsent· Jusdel· Hudy (above)

Nebu Sente opened his eyes and came out of the darkness, which was dim, but at the end of the haze, there seemed to be a faint light... Where am I? Nebu Sente left the bed and stood up, but the weakness of her limbs brought her back to the bed, and she sat on the bed with her head hanging and breathing slowly the warm air around her. Blinked, the scene in front of him seemed to be a little clearer, blinked again, the scene in front of him was much clearer than when he just woke up, and Neibu Sente could finally see the scenery around him clearly.

The stone walls made of eggplant purple stones, the beds made of young chrysanthemum-green shuttles, the stone windows made of turtledove-gray stones... Over here... Here it is... Inn... How did I get to the inn... Nebushant felt her head feel extremely heavy, and she couldn't remember how she had come to the inn.

The floor was filled with snoring and the sound of heavy, rapid breathing, and from time to time the dreams of individual Ancients could be heard. Nebushant left the bed once again and stood up, although his body still shook slightly, but this time Nebu Sente did not return to the bed. She walked over to the bunk in front of her, crouched down carefully, and stared at Andu on the bunk. Andu's face was still stained with tears, she seemed to have cried not long ago, very, very hard to cry, Neibu Sente quietly rubbed his right hand with his left hand, wiped the dust on his right hand as much as possible, and then raised his right hand a little, shook it quietly in mid-air, and then put his right hand in front of him, looked carefully, and confirmed that there was no dust on the five fingers and palms, Neibu Sente gently stroked Andu's face with his right hand, which had become relatively clean, and gently wiped the tears on the corners of her eyes and cheeks。 She took her right hand back, and her right hand was clenched into a fist by her, trembling, different from the warmth of her left hand, at this moment Neibu Sente felt that her right hand was extremely cold.

"Mom..."Andu's dream spread with her thoughts of her mother, a tear slipped from the corner of her eye at the same time she said the word "Mom", and Andu's whole body curled up...

Trying to wipe away the tears that hung on her chin with her right hand that had not yet reached the ground, she gently stretched out her right hand, but her right hand stopped in mid-air, and when Insidesen hesitated, the tears had already dripped to the ground.

Nebu Sente's right hand trembled, and it seemed that it couldn't get close to Andu no matter what... What's wrong with me... I... What am I afraid of... Afraid... Will you be sorry for Ander and his partner... I'm sorry Andu... Is it... Neibu Sente held his head with both hands, the whole person involuntarily retreated, collapsed to the ground, trembling spread from her right hand to Neibu Sente's entire body, her black and yellow eyes, full of pain, everything in her eyes became hazy again, and she couldn't see anything clearly... In a trance, her body unconsciously put on the broken bronze purple mutilated armor, and the ink-colored cloth backpack containing the head of the bounty "deserter" Gray Di Nowell was also carried on her back... Nebu Sente felt as if he saw Ander, he smiled at Nebu Sente, his left arm around his beloved partner, she looked at Neibu Sente, the plea in her eyes was so firm, firm that it made Nebu Sente return to reality from a trance, she felt that her body suddenly became very heavy, and a lot of sweat oozed from her forehead, neck and back, Neibu Sente hung her head, blinked her eyes, took a deep breath, raised her head, and exhaled the inhaled breath hard... I... I'm now... What to do?

The air that had been warm and abundant on the floor was now cold and thin in the nose of Neibu Sente, and she covered her chest with her right hand and staggered towards the glimmer at the end of the floor...

When Neibu Sente came to the end of the floor, he realized the faint light he had just seen... It is the flame of a torch from the gray stone wall of the turtledove. The torch made of yellow poplar wood was small, but it burned very slowly, and the soft and faint light emitted by the flame at the top of it helped Neibu Sente to expel the coolness in her body, but the faint feeling of suffocation still stayed in Neibu Sente's chest, and she had to go down the stairs at the end of the floor, and follow the stone staircase to the bottom floor of the inn, the first floor.

The coolness here was even worse than the floor where the bed was located, and the rest of the torches had been extinguished, except for the torch at the top of the staircase, which was burning, except for the torch at the top of the staircase. Neibu Sente walked to the stone platform and saw the old parchment scroll, which was very different from the appearance of Neibu Sente in his memory, there were many new cracks and cracks in its corners, but the torn gap in the upper right corner was still there.

The wind squeezed through the crack in the purple-gray stone door into the inn, and the pain caused them to let out a terrible, high-pitched whistling sound that kept coming into the ears of Neibu Sente, and she had to cheer up. Inside, Sente walked over to the stone chair, sat down carefully, removed the ink-colored cloth backpack from his back, opened it, and looked at the contents of the cloth backpack... The first thing that caught the eye of Neibu Sente was the head of Gray Di Noward, except for his head, there were only two medicinal leaves in the entire ink-colored cloth backpack... Where's my water bottle? Inside Bu Sente rummaged through her ink-colored cloth backpack and didn't see her own water bottle, she looked up, remembering where she had used it... Oh! The observer, I stuck the water bottle in the sand in front of it... It turns out I left the water bottle for it... I forgot...

The sound of crisp footsteps came from above the inner step of Sente, seemingly from the second floor of the inn. Before anyone could see it, they first saw a white ponytail with a high bundle of clouds. Immediately after, a milky white and immature face appeared in front of Neibu Sente's eyes.

Nebu Sente and her looked at each other, her smile immediately disappeared from her face, but immediately reappeared on her face, but even Neibu Sente, who was nearly a floor away from her, could clearly see how stiff her smile was at the moment.

"Long time no see... She walked down the stone stairs step by step, and walked towards the inner step of the heart, her black and yellow eyes filled with indifference and incomprehension... There was also a wisp of anger that she had carefully hidden.

"Ainar..."Neibu Sente immediately noticed the indifference and incomprehension in Ainar's eyes, along with the wisp of anger that she had carefully hidden, Neibu Sente sighed softly, and looked away from Ainar's body and shifted to the ink-colored cloth backpack that had been opened by herself, "It's been a long time..."

"Since you were back then... chose not to say goodbye..."Ainar walked to the side of Neibu Sente, her feet on tiptoe, she seemed to want to make herself as tall as possible in front of Neibu Sente, even so, her petite body could not reach the height of Neibu Sente's shoulders. Although Nebu Sente couldn't fully understand why she was doing this at the moment, he could more or less guess what Aina was thinking at the moment, "Then why are you coming back now?"

"I... I don't want to come back..."Neibu Sente's voice was full of sadness, her reluctance, it seemed that even Aina could empathize, the wisp of anger in Ainar's eyes that she had carefully hidden quietly disappeared, but the indifference and incomprehension still stayed in her eyes, she carefully glanced at Neibu Sente's face, as if she saw something, and quickly retracted her gaze, "I... Really don't want to come back to this place..."

"Don't you want to come back..."There was an inexplicable calm in Ainal's fresh voice, as if she seemed to have become like this after Neibu Sente said "I don't want to come back", "You met Leo?"

"I met him with Jaszmaed, Andu, and the little one through the left door to the city hub Huron Yoran. Neibu Sente closed her eyes, both hands left the ink-colored cloth backpack, the palm of her left hand supported Neibu Sente's forehead, she felt that her head seemed to be heavier at this time, and her right hand was placed on her right thigh by Neibu Sente, and she clenched it tightly. His right hand suddenly trembled slightly unconsciously, and Neibu Sente immediately hid his right hand behind the right side of his body, so that Aina in front of his left body could not see it, "Jaszmad asked me to bring him to the city hub Huron Yolan... That's the only reason I'll be back... There's no need for me to lie to you. ”

"Jaszmaed, Andu, little one?" said Ainar hadn't heard the three names spoken of by Nebucent, but Nebucent was sure she had seen them.

"That silver-haired, silver-eyed... Male... You've seen it, right? He's Jaszmaed. The ancient girl on the bed next to me, the little girl with short chestnut hair that reached shoulder length, have you seen it too? As for the little one... It is a moon-white creature with two tails and four legs... You've seen that too, right?" Inside's gaze shifted back to Grey Noord's head... I should go get this guy's bounty...

"Oh—I've seen both Jaszmad and Andu, but that two-tailed, four-legged moon-white creature you call 'Little One'... I haven't seen it. I really haven't seen it. Ainar tilted her head and shook her head slightly, her white ponytail swaying delicately with the swaying of her head.

"After so many years..."Neibu Sente looked at Ainal, his eyes were full of helplessness, if he could, Nebu Sente really didn't want to see Ainar again, "You... Are you doing well?"

"Me?" the indifference in Ainar's eyes remained, "I'm doing well. ”

Aina fell silent after saying that, and Nebu Sente didn't know what to say. Quiet, like a sharp weapon, kept piercing into the heart of Neibu Sente, and kept pulling out of it, making Neibu Sente's heart keep hurting.

"Jaszmatry saved me... Twice...", Nebushant tried to say something, and then told Jaszyoung that he had saved himself, "He's my savior... He didn't know how to get to the city center, so I had to take him to the city center myself.

That's why I'll be back. ”

"It seems that you've been ... Outside the city hub... It's been a hard time..."There was a slight pity in Ainal's eyes, and Nebu Sente realized it.

"It's fine. There was a glint of memories in Neibu Sente's eyes, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously turned up slightly, "I... I don't think I'm having a hard time outside the city hub... On the contrary, I feel very happy..."

"You're having a very happy life..."The indifference in Ainar's eyes seemed so blatant to Neibu Sente, "Then you shouldn't come back anyway!"

"Ainar... You're right..."Neibu Sente lowered his head, his silver-gray hair obscuring her eyes, Neibu Sente didn't want Ainar to see the sadness in his eyes at this moment, "I... I shouldn't have come back..."

"When you said goodbye, Pyde killed himself with tears in his eyes, and everyone thought what that damn guy said was true!" "Aina jumped up on the spot, her white ponytail flicking haphazardly behind her head, she almost roared at the inner step, the indifference in her voice had turned to anger, "And I... I've always wanted to believe that you and Pyder are innocent, that all that horrible thing has nothing to do with the two of you!"

"Don't say it... Ainar... Don't say it..."Inside's right hand gradually stopped trembling, and she could feel that her tears were about to overflow her eyes. Then she immediately left the stone chair and stood up. Turned, with his back to Ainal.

"You... Leave. Pyde... Self-destruction and liberation. What about me... What about me!" Ainal's anger did not disappear completely, but was carefully hidden in her indifference, as if deliberately allowing Nebushant to be aware of it all the time, "I have to bear it all alone... It's been ten years, and the inner step is ... It's been ten years!"

Nebu Sente was silent, what Aina said at this time was the truth.

I'm sorry...

These three words have never been able to come out of the mouth of Neibu Sente, whether it was then or now.

"Don't say it..."Aina leaned her head back slightly, and at the same time leaned slightly to the left, her voice became slower, "Don't say it......"

"Ainal..."Neibu Sente must now leave the inn and go to the bounty office, "Is the bounty still in the same place?"

"Bounty? It's no longer where it was. Ainar looked at Neibusent, "The current city hub has changed a lot compared to the previous city hub. ”

"I want to go to the bounty office, do you know where it is?" Insideshin closed the ink-colored cloth backpack and put it back on his back.

"I'll take you... Tell you where it is, and you won't necessarily find it. Aina led Neibu Sente to the purple-gray stone gate, suddenly turned her head, and looked at Neibu Sente with a frown, "Why did you go to the bounty ya?"

"I'd like to go to the bounty office to see the latest bounty list..."Ubu Sente straightened his back, allowing his ink-colored cloth backpack to be better hidden behind him.

"Is there a bounty list?" Aina supported her chin with her slightly bent right index finger and thumb, half-squinted her eyes, and raised her head slightly to look at Inbu Sente, "You... Why do you want to see the bounty list? This thing has nothing to do with you, right? You... Isn't it possible that you're being rewarded? A bounty has an idea... Right?"

"I'd like to see the bounty list, but to see if Ash Noord's bounty has changed. Uchibu Sente kept stroking his forehead with his left hand, his eyes closed.

"Gray Di Noyd?" Ainar pushed the purple-gray stone door open, and despite her petite body, she seemed to have power far beyond it.

"Hmm..."Neibu Sente was now desperate to leave the city hub sooner.

Aina was the first to walk out of the purple-gray stone door of the inn, her right hand raised high, and shook it casually, "Neibu Sente, you can help me close the door..."

Nebushant walked out of the inn's purple-gray stone door after Ainar, and she immediately closed the stone door as soon as she walked out. Nebu Sente did so almost at the same time that Ainar said those words and shook her right hand. When Nebush Cente turned around and found that Aina had been staring at her, but when Innerstep Cente made eye contact with her, she immediately turned around and stopped staring at Innerstep Cent...

"Inside the step of the sent... You're going to leave the city hub again, right?" said Aina as she walked in front of Nebusent, her voice drifting from front to back, and Nebucent couldn't tell from her that she was in the middle of her heart.

"I'll leave the city tomorrow morning!" Uchibu Sente blinked his eyes, raised his left hand, and carefully stroked the tip of his nose, Ainar's words sounded like greeting an old friend she hadn't seen in a long time, but Uchibu Sente always felt a chill, she didn't know if it was her own delusion...

"Leaving tomorrow?" said Ainal, who seemed to be sure of something.

"I'm so tired... My body is scarred now... So..."Neibu Sente is indeed a little tired... Although the wounds on his body have somehow healed, the fatigue accumulated in his body and the pain accumulated in his heart cannot be alleviated.

Ainar turned her head to look at Uchibu Sente, and her gaze first came to Uinbu Sente's face, followed by Neibu Sente's waist, and finally Neibu Sente's legs.

"I'll be able to leave the city tomorrow... Really..."Nebucent could clearly perceive that Aina was looking at herself, and at her wounds. Nebushant didn't care about her gaze, because Nebushant didn't deceive Ainaer, what Nebushant said was the truth, "I'll leave the city hub tomorrow morning... I'd actually like to be in the market right tonight... But... I think... Let Andu have a good rest in your inn. ”

"Andu... Is that the ancient girl?" Ainar's slightly tense face gradually relaxed, and her speech became slower than before.

"Hmm," Nebushant nodded.

"Whatever you want—" Ainar turned her head, no longer looking at the inner step, and walked forward in silence.

Neibu Sente and Aina passed a small wooden building, the exterior of which was made of yellow poplar wood, and the exterior of the small building was cracked with many cracks. Two wooden doors made of bright green green coral crumble, the one on the left opening outward, its upper half almost completely shattered, and only a few fragments barely "cling" to the wooden wall next to it. The wooden door on the right is closed, but it seems to have been torn open by something, only the right half is left, and the left half seems to have turned into bright green wood fragments all over the ground, and the two bright green wooden doors seem to have had some miserable experience before... There are far more cracks in the wooden wall next to the wooden door than the outside of the small building, and there is a wooden bar made of yellow poplar wood on the ground in front of the wooden door on the right.

"Nebu Sente?" Aina noticed Nebu Sente's stop at this time, and strode to Neibu Sente's side.

"I've never seen this wooden building here..."Neibu Sente slowly lowered his right arm, raised his left arm, and pointed to the wooden building in front of him with his left index finger, "Ainer, what is this place?"

"Here... Here it is... Oops! Why did the servant Ku Pavilion become like this?" Is this place so important to Ainar? Wait a minute... Servants?

"What you've got in your hand... What is it... Oh, isn't this the flagpole of the Pavilion! What about the green flag on the flagpole? Why isn't it on the flagpole?"

"Ao... "Neibu Sente couldn't understand what Aina was saying.

"The Pavilion... The Jiu Pavilion is a place where servants brew and sell Jiu, and it is also a place where everyone buys and drinks Jiu. This place is very important to almost all the ancient people in the city! Spring... I can't explain—" Aina ran away from Neibu Sente's side and ran straight into what she called the "Gym Pavilion."

Neibu Sente looked at the yellow wooden strip in her right hand that Aina called the "flagpole", bent her right elbow, and raised her right arm, she was going to throw away the wooden strip that had cracked, but she half-squinted her eyes, hesitated, or gave up the idea of throwing it away, and inserted it into the cloth belt on her right waist, so that it was tightly attached to her dark purple sheath, and then Neibu Sente glanced at the wooden bar, and then took a step and entered the pavilion.

Walking into the pavilion, the first thing Neibu Sente saw was a plant on the left side of the bright green wooden table, Neibu Sente approached the wooden table, looking at this plant swaying slightly in the breeze, it has lilac petals, brownish and yellow bulbs, so that Neibu Sente looks particularly pleasant, although she doesn't know this plant, but seeing it, it still makes Neibu Sente's long-lasting bad mood a little better.

Ainar suddenly emerged from behind the wooden table, startling Neibu Sente, who was now most of gone, as if she had seen something, and became relieved, and a smile reappeared on her immature face.

"It's okay... OK... The barrels are not damaged... Phew..."Aina lay on the wooden table, grabbed an orange ball with her right hand, threw it into her mouth, and then closed her eyes, pursed her mouth, shrugged her shoulders, and looked extremely painful, "Ahhh

"Ainal, what's wrong?" Seeing the pain on Ainal's face, Nebu Sente couldn't help but care about her.

"Okay—sour—" The pain on Ainal's face faded away, "It's really sour, this sea buckthorn!"

"Sea buckthorn?" Neibu Sente had never heard of this "sea buckthorn".

"This is it!" Ainar grabbed an orange-yellow ball from the right side of the wooden table with her right hand, and her right hand reached out towards the inner step of the center, allowing the inner step to see the ball better, "This is sea buckthorn, a fruit with a sour taste. ”

"That's... What about this plant?" Inside, Sente raised his right arm and pointed his right index finger at the plant he saw for the first time when he entered the pavilion.

"Oh - you say it, it's... It's..."Aina first put the sea buckthorn in her right hand back on the wooden table, then put her right elbow on the top of the wooden table, her right hand gently supported her right cheek, and her whole head tilted slightly to the right, "It's... Oh! Oh yes! It's shallots!"

"Sand... Scallions... I remember the name...", Ubushant nodded slightly, his voice softening, "By the way, Ainal, what the hell is Ainar?"

Ainar glanced at Neibu Sente, walked out of the wooden table, and took Neibu Sente to the wooden table together, at this time a bunch of wooden barrels appeared in front of Neibu Sente's eyes, most of them were made of tender chrysanthemum green shuttle, a few were made of bright green green coral, and a... It's the red of the mountain bean... But Neibu Sente doesn't know what it's made of ...

With her right hand, Ainar lifted the lid of a tender chrysanthemum-green barrel, then reached into the barrel with her right hand, which remained in the barrel for a moment, and then her right hand slowly lifted up and left the barrel. In her right hand she held a wooden spoon, which seemed to be some kind of liquid, colorless and transparent, and which she felt looked like water. At this time, Neibu Sente's nose smelled a strong smell, a little pungent, and she felt that the smell was coming from this liquid.

"Ainar, this water-looking liquid... Is it a gourd?" she blew her nose as she carefully rubbed her right index finger back and forth under her nose, the pungent smell making her uncomfortable.

"Hmm... This is one of the three types of Jiu Guan... Wrong... Bar... It should be two kinds of Jiu..."Aina raised her head slightly, squinted her eyes, frowned her brows, and pondered for a moment, "There are only two kinds of Jiu in the Jiu Pavilion, Puku Bai and Bule Bai... The tender chrysanthemum green barrel is filled with water, the bright green barrel is filled with unmixed water, and the red wooden barrel of Shanli beans is filled with Bule Bai. ”

"Puku, Buhler?" said Nebushent, who felt that the two names sounded particularly awkward.