Volume 2 Chapter 178 The Entrustment in a Dream
More than a month has passed since his body deteriorated, and in this short period of more than a month, Thor's original life has changed dramatically.
During these difficult days, Thor's physical condition has been repeatedly switching between cold, heat, high fever, and pain, and he has never stopped doing so every day. And in all these states, the most terrible thing is still the irresistible pain.
The pain of a worm burrowing in a bone, as Hughgoth had spoken before he died, had to go through it every few days.
No matter how many times you face this pain, you can never get used to it. Every time it is worse than death, there is no escape.
In the early days, Thor visited many places despite his illness. I have also seen countless herbalists, plague doctors, healers, soothsayers, pharmacists, magicians, in short, anyone he thinks might be helpful to him.
However, in the end, no one could tell what happened to Thor, and even most of them were skeptical of Thor's account, or took the opportunity to sell Thor some weed to cheat him.
During this time, Thor had eaten a monster soup made from a variety of herbs, whether it had an effect or not, no matter how it tasted, and whether or not it caused any after-effects.
Thor didn't care too much, after all, what did a person who even had his blood turn green.
Later, Thor finally gave up all unrealistic illusions and stopped asking for any help.
Maybe this was how Shogues begged for help at that time, and finally walked lonely on the way home.
And now, it's your turn.
Thor spends all his time and energy fighting against the various negative states of his body, sometimes one moment he is still walking normally, and the next moment he falls into a coma involuntarily.
Now he looks like a homeless man often seen on the street, or rather lives like a mouse.
The beard is messy, the hair that has grown long has become greasy and knotted from long neglect, and the smell of the sewer is often disgusting in the hottest weather.
Over the course of more than a month, Thor has encountered countless blank eyes and rejection, and has often lived in stables, garbage heaps, and dirty alleys. Anyway, when he felt that his consciousness was about to fall into a drowsy, he would just find the nearest place and lie down on the spot.
In the last few days, he has been coughing up blood almost every day, and the blood is still green.
As if the internal organs had rotted in the chest, the blood emitted a strange smell that was incomparably strong, and seemed to be corrosive to the plants on the ground. And the weirdest thing is that even if he is already like this, he is still alive.
Thor never dared to show these anomalies in front of people, he didn't want to be seen as an anomaly.
From first suspecting that he was sick, then later thinking that it was poisoning, and finally he gradually realized that he seemed to be under a curse. And the reason why I came to this conclusion is because my physical condition in all aspects has obviously exceeded the scope of normal people.
When did he start cursing?, Thor thought about it but couldn't find an answer.
Maybe it was when you saw Rotten Claude, maybe it was in Evan's secret realm, or maybe it was in some tomb robbery, as Shogues said, who knows?
Thor even suspects that he and Shogues have fallen under the same curse at the same time.
It's just that perhaps due to the difference in physique or the difference between individuals, Xiugues took a step first, and he only began to show various abnormalities half a year later.
But now all kinds of speculation are meaningless, after all, it has happened.
After a month of hard work, Thor suddenly found that his physical condition had deteriorated even further.
It was something that happened after waking up from a coma one day, and Thor felt a little itchy in his fingers, and subconsciously reached out and scratched it. Then he saw that the nail of his left thumb was falling off without warning, and there were a few green streaks of blood on his fingers.
Then, while eating the next day, he felt as if stones had been mixed into the bread.
When he spit it out in his palm and looked closely, he realized that it was not a stone but one of his own teeth, and he licked Thor with his tongue only to realize that he had lost one of his teeth at some point.
It's a terrifying feeling, you look at a part of your body and just leave you without any pain or even noticing, and suddenly you have a thrilling feeling in the silence.
However, after some horror, in the end, Thor still didn't take it too seriously, because he knew that he would soon go to the same end as Xiugus. Death may or may not be a relief, but when you think about it, life suddenly becomes brighter.
The most important thing is that he is really fed up with such days.
Just when Thor thought he was going to lose all his nails and teeth, and then finally decay his body, things changed again.
The change came from his dreams, eerie dreams about the walls made of heads.
In the new dream, Thor still walked through the walls of skulls as he had done several times before. One of the heads was desperately shouting something at Thor, and Thor in his dream subconsciously listened.
"Kill Klein Horwood, kill him, in the anvil of Warsaystan. He killed me, and took my property and my wife, and I want him to die. The head howled at Thor from the wall.
However, it seemed that he did not have much time, and after saying this to Thor, the head disappeared as if it had been dragged into the mire on the wall by some force.
When Thor woke up from his dream, he felt something strange.
Today's physical condition coincided with the turn of the cold, and Thor was curled up by the fire in the cave, able to carry out a certain amount of sane thinking.
In order not to let anyone notice his anomaly, Thor recently moved to a cave in the wilderness and lived a solitary life alone.
That strange dream had appeared many times in the past few days, but the heads on the wall had never communicated with them specifically, and their voices seemed to come from far below the surface of the water, and they had never heard clearly.
But in this dream, Saul heard it so clearly that when he woke up, he still remembered the contents of the dream very clearly, so Saul began to wonder about the content of the dream.
Klein Horwood sounded clearly a personal name, while Warsestein appeared to be a place name, and the anvil seemed to be a tool used by blacksmiths to strike iron.
When Thor flipped through the map in confusion, his gaze froze.
Because there really is a territory called Wosestan on the map, which looks like two territories across the main city of Odrenza.
Most of people's dreams are usually absurd, but there are some dreams that may be so impressed by people and objects in reality that they appear in dreams.
The question is, the name of the person and place that the head on the wall says is unknown to me and has never heard of, and what does this have to do with the cursed self?
With unrelieved doubts, Thor arrived at the territory of Wosestan two days later through the secret realm.
To be honest, he didn't know what he was going to do, and when he thought of being in reality based on what he heard in his dreams, Thor felt that he must be crazy.
However, to Thor's shock, he asked a local for a casual inquiry, and found that there was indeed a small town called Anvil Town in this territory. It is said that many years ago, the town was named after several skilled blacksmiths.
When Thor arrived in Anvil Town to inquire again, there was really a family named Horwood in the town, and it was a well-known and wealthy family in the town.
And Klein Horwood is an old widower who is still alive today, in his sixties. However, he has abdicated from the position of head of the family for several years, and his son is currently in charge of the family affairs, while his wife died more than a decade ago.
Although the overlap between dreams and reality was shocking, Thor suddenly felt a little lost when it came to this point.
The head on the wall was like a commission in a dream, but what was he going to do next? Kill the target as the head said? Is what he said true?
The point is that even if what the head said was true, Thor didn't want to be a judge or avenger.
Thor is no stranger to murder, and even counts that he has already had several lives on his hands. While those were all out of his own revenge, and the reasons weren't very noble, at least Thor thought they deserved to die.
Now to kill someone who has nothing to do with him and never knows, Thor still has some resistance in his heart after all, after all, he is not a killer who receives money from others, nor is he a righteous person.
And although Thor's hands have been stained with blood, he still adheres to a bottom line in his heart.
Just like cannibalism, during the worst famine in Grey Curtain Town, Thor has passed by the fresh corpse that has recently died several times, and he has also squirmed his throat because of his inner instinctive desire, but he has never squatted.
People can always find enough reasons to convince themselves to cross a line. It is not difficult to cross these bottom lines, but the difficult thing is whether you are ready to face the subtle changes that will change you later.
No matter what you have done, time will eventually dispel the resistance and anxiety in your heart, soothe your anger, and most people will still get back on track and continue their lives after a brief period of loss.
It's just that when you look back a few years later, you stubbornly think that you haven't changed, but in fact, in the eyes of those who are familiar with you, you have already changed beyond recognition and fallen into the torrent of time.
And the reason why you have changed may be because a long time ago, you crossed a certain bottom line that you have long forgotten.