With light steps and humming a little tune, Ligrue Knightbarg strolls through the Enchanted Forest, enjoying the cool and humid surroundings. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even during the day, the forest was as dark as night. Hundreds of layers of impermeable canopy block all sunlight, and not even a single point of light leaks to the grass and trees below. The only things that can take root in the barren soil beneath the canopy are those that like youkai and dislike light, such as mushrooms.

Perhaps tired from walking, or perhaps because she hadn't rested for too long, Ligrau stopped, found a large protruding root, sat down, and leaned back against the trunk. This hundred-year-old tree has become her natural recliner. She will lie dormant here until the moon rises.

The silence and the breeze were silent, and even the autumn cicadas in the trees stopped wailing so that the insect demon could take a nap peacefully. Ligru slowly closed her eyelids, freeing her heavy thoughts from the constraints of gravity, breaking through the clouds, breaking through the sky, reaching the moon, dancing on the unsullied soil.

She was supposed to be left unawake like this.

"Ahh

The tingling pain from her fingertips pulled her back from her sleep, back to reality, back to her body. She looked down and saw a large swarthy centipede lying on the back of her hand—it was obvious that it had done the sting.

Just as she noticed the centipede, the centipede knew she was awake, so it raised its head and faced Ligru, waving its tentacles above its head as if it wanted to say something.

"What did you say?"

Ligru raised her hand and lifted the centipede in front of her, reaffirming its message.

As a bugger, she is feared among insects, and generally no insect will dare to bite her, unless they have something important to report to her, and must use a weak attack to attract her attention, as is the case now.

Liglu lowered her hand so that the kind-hearted centipede could return to where it belonged. Then she stood up, leaning back against the tree, nervously scouting the wind and grass around her.

"Someone is going to kill you. "That's the message that the centipede sent to her.

Note that it is "kill", not "attack". It deliberately emphasizes the act of "killing", indicating that it detected obvious killing intent from the stranger's body.

Although she didn't know who she had provoked and caused her to be killed, Liglaw didn't intend to sit still. In terms of combat ability, she thinks she is much better than those little monsters who have no name or surname.

"Who the hell is it, come out of here!" she yelled into the shadowy depths of the forest.

Her voice hit the thick tree and bounced off one tree to another, eventually forming cascading echoes that traveled farther away. She was sure that she would make the other person hear, and the other party did.

So he showed up.

The guy came quietly, as if the wind was blowing. Even with all her attention, Liglaw didn't realize how he got here. When she saw him, he was already standing there.

Outwardly, it was a tall, lanky man, dressed in black, with a wide black cloak, a strange beak mask on his face, and a top hat buttoned over his head. The man, or something in human form, had been standing there so straight since he appeared, without saying a word, motionless, like a withered branch.

Even from a great distance, Ligaru could tell that "he" wasn't human, and he didn't look like any youkai she knew. She had never seen this guy before, but she could tell at a glance that it was not a good person.

"Who are you?" she shouted, but received no response, "If you don't answer, I'll ...... I'm going to attack!"

Her words sounded unconfident, but in fact, she really didn't have much confidence. Ligrau wasn't sure she would defeat the stranger, but it would be too bad for her to just escape.

So she made a move, releasing a small string of light bullets with demonic power, wanting to give the taciturn man a little color, but she didn't expect that this move almost killed her.

The bullet missed, and before she could react and make adjustments, the guy was in front of her. She couldn't even see how the other person moved, not even a shadow, but when she came to her senses, it was only pitch black - that was the color of his clothes.

She didn't expect that the difference in strength between us and the enemy would be so big.

"Uh...... I think...... I shouldn't have ......"

Ligrau was so frightened that she couldn't even say a complete sentence. She stood in the slender shadow, feeling as short as a little mouse, or a bug.

"Uh...... Woo ......"

The humanoid monster grabbed her by the throat, grabbed her by the neck, and lifted her up. His arm was pale and withered, looking like a white bone, but incredibly full of power. Liglu kicked and kicked, no matter how much she struggled, to no avail.

There was no beating pulse on the guy's arm. He didn't breathe, he didn't have a heartbeat, he didn't have the slightest breath of the living, and he smelled sweet rancid all over his body, yes, sweet, rancid. The smell was as disgusting as a rotting corpse, but it attracted her incredibly.

Strictly speaking, it is not "attraction", but "control".

Whether it was the lack of oxygen, the indescribable smell, or both, Ligrau's struggle became weaker and weaker, and finally stopped completely.

Seeing that his prey had lost the strength to resist, the man in black finally began his next move. He lifted his other free hand and slowly unmasked his face.

"Dead ...... If this guy is allowed to remove the mask completely, I will never be able to escape. Ligrau thought to herself.

She didn't know why he had done such a strange act of taking off his mask at such a time, but she was sure that once she saw the face hidden behind the mask, she would be doomed.

It's her feeling, derived from the instinct of insects, unprovoked, but incomparably real.

The act of unmasking, brought about by a few seconds of pause, is the last ray of life for Ligelu, if you catch it, you can live, and if you can't catch it, you will die.

Luckily, she's a bug, which means she's never alone.

In this gloomy forest, insects are everywhere.

When the man in black took off his mask and revealed his pale face, at that moment, a large group of poisonous insects that had already been ambushed in the treetops jumped down and landed on his face. There were red centipedes, spiders with patterns, scorpions, millipedes, Hu Feng, and so on...... They burrowed into his eyes, nose, and mouth, biting at his skin and mucous membranes, injecting them with the poison they had carefully brewed.

"Woo......"

The man in black let out a dull scream of pain, let go of his hand, and let go of Ligru. He covered his face with his hands, and was too busy dealing with the poisonous insects wreaking havoc on his face, and he had no time to deal with the insect demons sitting at his feet.

In order to buy their master a little time to escape, the poisonous insects gave their lives to complete this fearless suicide attack. The little venom in their body wouldn't have been enough to kill the monster, but it was enough to temporarily leave him blind, paralyzed, and in excruciating pain.

Liglaw didn't waste her friends' lives in exchange for this perfect chance to escape. She gasped, regained a little strength, and scurried toward the edge of the forest.

This escape can be described as a panic, Liglu has no idea where she is running, the only thing she wants to do is to escape from this hellish place as soon as possible. She didn't know if the monster had followed, but no matter what, she wasn't going to slow down.

The shady shade behind her seemed to her now that it was simply a netherworld, but the brighter and brighter sunlight in front of her seemed so warm. It was the first time in her life that Riglu loved the sun so much.

She had fallen about five times, and it seemed like ten, and she was almost moved to tears when she stood in the sun with the only shoe she had left, covered in scars and rags.

She was so moved that she almost couldn't help yelling "praise the sun".

"Hah...... Ha ......"

Ligrau bent over, clutching her knees, gasping for air. She no longer had the strength to escape, or resist, if at this time, the man in black suddenly chased after her, then she had to accept her fate.

"Ah, what's wrong with you, little friend?"

A gentle, slightly sweet voice came from not far ahead. Liglaw looked up and saw a peerless beauty that almost suffocated her.

It was a demon flower, and that was all Liglu could describe. Her beauty is not like a mortal, nor is she a fairy, but only a demon who takes people's souls. Even so, Liglaw couldn't take her eyes off her at all. She was already unconsciously attracted to the person in front of her, just like a butterfly is attracted to flowers, and it was a matter of course.

The woman, with a large parasol at this time, walked slowly towards the embarrassed Ligrau, with a smile on her face. Behind her, a large field of golden sunflowers, glittering in the sun, almost as dazzling as she was.

Ligrau stared blankly at the man, speechless. As soon as she crawled out of hell, she turned around and met an angel, a huge change that she couldn't accept for a while.

"Was someone bullied?" the woman asked, smiling.

"No...... No!" Liglaw stumbled and choked out a few words, "Listen to me, there...... There's a monster in the forest! No, it's not a monster, it's a dangerous one......

She pointed to the forest behind her, and vaguely recounted what had happened to her, thinking to herself that she could not let the kind person in front of her be in danger.

"Hehe, so this kind of thing happened?" After listening to her description, the other party was neither surprised nor surprised, but just smiled, and his emotions did not seem to fluctuate at all.

"Anyway, you look tired and injured, why don't you come to my house and rest? She continued, "No one can hurt you there, I assure you." ”

"Ah...... Okay, okay...... Thank you. ”

Ligrau bowed deeply, then took the other man's hand and followed her.