Chapter 501: Five Hundred and One
The north became a ghost in the mist, and they continued to howl from early morning until noon, and the white mist did not disperse.
This couldn't help but remind Pique of his dreams, which he had been dreaming for five years in a row.
Yes, everything is changing.
Only his dream has never changed.
It's always white, it's misty.
He never imagined that he would come to the Endless Forest again in this way.
The huge trees around them were dozens of feet high! In the fog farther away, there seemed to be thicker and taller trees.
Peake watched the scene, and his mind lit up with memories of the Timberwolves.
They weren't allowed to stay in the Endless Wall, so the Legion of the Silent couldn't count on it. He was now wondering if he could ask for help from the timberwolves in the Endless Forest, the house-sized timberwolves, the packs of timberwolves, would definitely save him from this unknown and dangerous journey.
Pique thought to himself that this team of nearly 10,000 people would definitely be able to catch the attention of the Timberwolves, and he hoped that Orr would recognize him.
Pique's thoughts have always been hopeful, and only in this way can he keep a smile on his face.
When talking to Sandy, you have to say it in a laughing and gentle tone, and the people around him all show a lifeless look, if he doesn't give Sandy hope, then Sandy's little heart will definitely collapse in a short time.
"Daddy, what's the game?" Sandy asked Peake curiously, "I'm waiting to play the game! I'm going to win the game and become the Knight of Light!"
"Uh...... Uh......" Peake looked left and right, and muttered for a long time before he smiled and said to Sandy, "Trees!
"That's right, Daddy!" Sandy scratched her itchy ears and wondered, "Is the game a tree climber?
"No, no, no," Pique corrected immediately, "it's not climbing trees, it's counting, it's counting trees." β
"Uncle uncle?" Sandy suddenly stammered, "What is Uncle Uncle?"
"Tree! It's a big tree, it's a green tree!" Peake patiently explained to him, "We're going to count all the trees in the forest!
Sandy blinked, and suddenly covered her face full of sadness.
Pique saw his grievances and thought to himself, could it be that the game he came up with was too difficult?
Then, Sandy's words made Peake smile bitterly.
"Daddy, what did you say!" Sandy pouted, "We've just passed by so many trees! I didn't count! It's over, I've lost, it's over! Everyone must be counting, they can be called knights of light, I can't! It's over, it's all over!"
Looking at the pessimistic Sandy, Pique is considering whether to take his grandfather and Sandy out of their team at this time, out of the pessimistic Faral.
There was Falal who had been complaining in the ranks, and the little ones had learned his mantra.
"Sandy, don't worry, I've counted them all!" In the fog, their visibility was less than ten meters, so they could only see the two trees around them, "It's one hundred and sixty-eight! We've already passed one hundred and sixty-eight trees! Hey, Sandy, from now on, you're going to have to pay your full attention, it's one hundred and sixty-nine, one hundred and seventy ......"
Sandy immediately woke up from his grief, his big blue eyes glancing around, and Peake knew he had mentally checked the numbers.
Sandy will turn six years old in less than a month, and Hasgar, as a teacher, has already given him all the numbers below 1,000, and as for what to do after finding a thousand trees, Peake has not had time to think about it.
Just as Sandy counted two hundred and one trees, the front of the line suddenly stopped.
In the white mist, not only was the vision blocked, but even the sound was greatly reduced.
Soon, a cavalryman of the kingdom in black armor came galloping from the front, whipping his horse, and he shouted:
"Everyone, rest in place for five minutes!"
Watching the black-armored cavalry pass by and begin to gallop towards the rear of the group, Peake said to Sandy:
"The game is over, we need to relax. β
The north wind howled, often turning the surrounding white fog into a white cyclone, but it could not be blown away. Peake stood in front of Sandy and his grandfather, shielding them from the cold wind with his back.
"I guess there will be wildlings in the Endless Forest, and maybe orcs in the depths," said the pessimistic Falal, "and it's over, the Odin want us to be bait to hunt the wildlings, it must be so." β
Sandy unconsciously touched her right ear, "What is a wild man?" he asked his father.
The pessimistic Falal always poses problems for Pique, and he can be considered imaginative when he racks his brains, but there is no need to stop the lie from deceiving Sandy, "Wild men live in the woods," he said, "and the wild men in the book are covered with black hair, and I remember showing you." β
"Oh, I remember," Sandy said thoughtfully, patting her head, "that was two years ago, and I thought of the wild man as a monster. β
It's normal for children to think of all species they don't know as monsters.
At this time, the pessimistic Falal spoke again:
"I dreamed of the Endless Forest, and my woman had such a dream, and we both saw wild people in our dreams. Sido, you live next door to me, and you should know that I told you about my dreams about the Endless Forest. β
Sido didn't like talking to Farral very much, and he thought that all those who talked to Farral would eventually become pessimistic, and he tried to end the conversation, "My mother said that everyone who walked into the Endless Forest died. β
"Sido, my nurse also said something like this, and later a mercenary boasted that they had been to the Endless Forest, and I questioned it, and then I was knocked out of one of my front teeth. Since then, I have never wanted to listen to my nurse. No, I don't believe what other women say, women are an unreliable species, and whoever listens to them will be unlucky. β
"My mother also said that the wild people in the endless forest eat people, especially children. Sido often talked about her mother.
"My wet nurse said the same thing, and later I used this story to scare children. β
"My mother...... Has my mother ever breastfed you?" said Sido, puzzled, "Why does your nurse say whatever my mother says?"
Falal immediately said, "I haven't eaten your mother's tits, they look limp, hiss, ugly to death." β
"Fuck you!" said Sido, knocking Faral to the ground with his fist, and immediately two silverarmoured horsemen approached Falal to hear his screams.
"What's going on?" asked one of the silver-armored horsemen.
"He's insulting my mother!" said Sido, accusing Falal.
Falal lay on the ground, his hands tightly covering his nose, and he said in a muffled voice, "I'm telling the truth, your mother's tits are soft, she opened the window to take a shower, you blame me for peeking!"
"I'll fuck you!" said Sido, riding on top of Farral, two fists waving incessantly.
The two silver-armored cavalrymen waited until Sido finished fighting before they joked: "So your mother's tits are soft and soft?"
Hearing this, Sido's eyes turned red, he clenched his fists, and jumped over without thinking.
Syllable!
The soft whip covered in dew slapped Sido's face, "Do you want to die?" said the Silver Cavalry as he looked at Sido, who was being whipped away, "Stand up and let me see your Jodelman backbone!"
"Hey, don't hit him," Faral interjected, "He's not around, Sido will never have a backbone." β
Sure enough, Sido, whose face was drawn a blood bar, lay on the ground and was silent.
The silver-armored cavalry spat and rode away.
Since then, in everyone's hearts, Sido has been directly labeled as spineless, and later when someone mentions Sido, they will call him "spineless Sido".
On the other hand, the pessimistic Falal helped Sido out of the siege. Of course, the spineless Sido would not be grateful to Falal, and he turned around and scanned the sky with a disgraced face. "Faral, that's how you were beaten when you were a kid," he said, "and one day you're going to be beaten to death." He endured his wounded pride and uttered the most vicious curse of his life.
As if he hadn't heard it at all, the expression on Faral's face, which was bleeding from the corners of his mouth and nose, seemed to be completely able to endure such pain, of course, it was also possible that he had been used to being beaten since he was a child......
When the pessimistic Farral and the spineless Sido first began to argue, Pique had already taken Sandy away, and he didn't want Sandy to hear such foul language.
There were silver-armored cavalry patrolling around him, so Pique's range of movement was only a few steps away, and if he walked a few more steps, he would definitely attract the attention of the silver-armored cavalry.
Pique talks to Sandy with a smile on his face, and who knows what deep fear lies beneath his smile, as well as the restlessness of falling forever. He had only been a father for five years, and when he first crossed the Endless Wall through a cave in the ground, all the unknowns and fears came to him, and he trembled with fear, and now he was also afraid, but in front of Sandy, he would never expose his weak side.
Tonight, however, is an exception. Before, when it was dark, they would camp and rest. But tonight was noticeably different, they went until late, and it was not until the silver-armored cavalry took his grandfather away that they received an order to rest. When the old man was taken away by the silver-armored cavalry, Pique saw the nostalgia and reluctance in his eyes, and at that moment, he suddenly sounded the story of his grandfather's previous generals with him, the story of five missing old dogs.
Before Sandy could fall asleep, he exposed his deep uneasiness.
"Sido, well, you didn't sleep, I have a few words to say to you," Peake groaned for a moment, and said to Sido, whose face was oozing blood, "I believe that you are the most backbone one, and from the moment you dared to jump in front of the cavalry, I began to think that you were the most backbone yodelman." You are a real man, and in that case, you made the right choice. β
Sido burst into tears, wet and salty tears soaking the wound on his face, and he frowned, then thought of what Peake had said, and he held back the pain in his throat.
Seeing Sido silently bow his head, Peake continued, "I'm going to see Barton Mondo now, so please help me take care of Sandy." β
Cido looked at Peake with brown eyes and nodded vigorously.
In the darkness of the night, Sandy sat in Sido's arms and watched Peake quietly leave. He didn't speak, and kept a number in his headβfive hundred and one.
They had passed five hundred and one trees, and Sandy had been counting them by heart.
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