The Struggle Between Light and Darkness (27)
When Brian heard this, his brows furrowed, but he seemed to quickly notice something, under the face wrapped by the holy woman, the position of the lips was topped, and the thin veil revealed the shape of the tongue, Brian's eyes showed a look of shock and excitement, he was not very good at concealing it, everyone could see it clearly, and without waiting for Lily to speak, he agreed without hesitation:
"Absolutely!" His tone was relaxed and cheerful, and there was a faint hint of lust. Before, he still looked angry and unhappy, but in a blink of an eye, his change was too obvious, even the other two knights seemed to see the clues, but everyone thought that he could have the opportunity to get close to this candidate saintess, and he didn't care, and now the saintess who died of the guardian knight named Brian to accompany him, and Brian was supposed to protect Lily had no opinion, so everyone naturally didn't say anything.
Everyone returned to their temporary resting place, Lily entered the tent, subconsciously stretched out her arms around her chest, the cushion in the tent was only away from people for a while, it was already cold and hard, she shivered, in the dark Arturi reached over, pulled her into his arms, she struggled twice, but as he sandwiched her cold feet between his legs, warmth came from him, Lily subconsciously stuck to him tighter, in order to avoid embarrassment, she whispered in Arturi's ear:
"Something is wrong with her."
Although Brian turned his back on the temple for Anna's sake, this does not mean that Brian is really a lewd/worm who sees a woman, he is considered to be restrained, and there are more than a dozen candidate saints in the temple alone. Each of the saints was very good-looking, and with Brian's excellent appearance and strong strength, if he wanted to, a large number of noblewomen in the imperial capital would be willing to become his lover, and he would be greedy for a while, but he didn't.
In the past, he didn't look at the other saints in the temple, and the reason why he was so easily seduced by Anna was that in addition to Anna's own charming appearance, there was also an unusual seductive charm in her, not everyone else could except Anna.
Tonight, the saintess who had died as a siderider just waved at Brian lightly. He said yes. Even no more trouble with Arturi for this, this is not Brian's character.
In the dark space, the corners of Arturi's mouth were slightly hooked, and he was pillowed by the lily with one hand. Feel her somewhat stiff body. The other hand was raised. After hesitating for a moment, he gently touched her head:
"Three days ago, the slave girl who had kissed him disappeared." As soon as he said this, he spoke. Lily subconsciously wanted to stand up, the weight on his arm was much lighter all of a sudden, as if something was empty in his heart, he reached out and pressed her head back to its original place, and his hand rested on her head and never left: "Sleep." ”
Although Arturi did not say exactly that this saint must be Anna, but his words confirmed this from the side, where can Lily sleep at this time, she wanted to speak again, Arturi suddenly turned his head:
"Can't sleep?" His face was very close, the tent was a little small, his slender legs could only lie down with curled legs, he felt with some satisfaction that Lily's originally cold body began to gradually become warm under the snuggling of his body temperature, at this time Lily couldn't see the look on his face clearly, but Lily's every move was seen by him.
Arturi's breath blew on Lily's forehead as he spoke, and he picked up a few strands of her hair and gently brushed it on her face, she seemed to be a little itchy, and subconsciously reached out to grab it, he also felt interesting to look at, and couldn't help but reach out to grab it for her.
Arturi had never felt like this before, as if he had found something he had lost for a long time, and he would never want to throw it away when he caught it, and his voice sounded very soft now as it sounded as detached and indifferent as it sounded before:
"If you can't sleep, do you want to listen to bedtime stories?"
When he said this, his tone seemed to be smiling, obviously coaxing himself as a child. Lily reached out helplessly to take his hand away, but he didn't let go, but grabbed Lily's hand into his palm and held it firmly, put it to his mouth and pecked it gently:
"Once upon a time, there was a declining aristocratic ......" he was not a good storyteller, telling a story simple and thin, he from an ordinary nobleman, after adulthood, married the daughter of another declining aristocratic family as a wife, the two couples tried their best to get ahead after marriage, for the sake of fancy clothes and jewelry, in order to be able to squeeze into the upper class.
The couple lived on the border of a certain country, and the family had nothing left to do but keep the name of a nobleman. Just when there was no way out, the nobleman's wife became pregnant, and this child did not come at the right time, the two were poor and miserable, and they lived on debt, and the family could not afford to hire a servant, and could not pay the salary of the next person.
In October, the young lady gave birth to a pair of lovely twin sisters.
It's just that when the family sees the newborn baby, they don't have the slightest joy, but they have endless panic and fear.
Not only did the twin girls not look alike, but the younger sister was born three minutes later than the elder sister, and within three minutes the lady of a declining aristocratic family had a nightmare in which she dreamed that endless darkness would engulf her, that she would one day die in the dark, and in her panic she regarded the baby girl as a heretic, as an ominous thing.
In the tradition of the Lolan Continent, twins are not an auspicious thing, and the people of the Lolan Continent are convinced that one of the twins must be extremely good, extremely bright and promising, and the other will be the embodiment of demons, which will be extremely dark and will bring endless disasters to the family.
If the news spreads, once the temple is alarmed, not only will the daughters born to her not be saved, but even the aristocratic couple will most likely be regarded as heretics and sent to the gallows after trial.
Thus in trepidation, the noble lady regarded her youngest daughter as an ominous demon, who she hated, hated and cursed her, but on the contrary, she believed that her eldest daughter was the one who had the potential to bring hope and light to herself.
The couple decided that their eldest daughter would bring glory to their family in the future. Believing that one day the declining aristocratic name would rekindle with the eldest daughter, they threw the younger daughter on the side of the road, and the lives of the two baby girls began to change dramatically.
"A daughter who is as they think, very promising, smart and well-behaved, obedient and kind, she is like an angel who has charmed many people." When Arturi said this, there seemed to be a smile in his voice: "And the other is not so lucky. But her life was great. She didn't survive after being thrown on the side of the road and dying of hunger and pain, as the couple thought. Adopted. ”
Lily heard this. A chill rose from the soles of my feet. At this moment, she had no time to care about Arturi's intimate movements, she was held in Arturi's arms, but she still felt a chill in her body.
"She was adopted by slaves. And named Anna? ”
Arturi is not a person who likes to talk nonsense, even if he has not known him for a long time, but Lily seems to have figured out his character a little, and he is inexplicably telling himself this today, definitely not for the sake of what he casually said to tell a bedtime story. She remembered what Arturi had said when she wanted to invite her back to Arturi's territory as a guest, as if he had inadvertently said it, when he asked himself if he had found anything interesting, she had a very strange mission this time, I don't know if it was because of the incompleteness of the mission plot, so the whole thing was like a mess, she spent most of her mind trying to sort out the clues of the mission, Arturi said at that time that he had found something useful, let him go with him to the Arturi family, he would tell himself.
But at that time, Lily only thought that he wanted to coax himself to get into his carriage willingly, so he didn't take it seriously, and now that she thought about it, the more she began to think about it, the more she felt that something was not right.
The aristocratic couple mentioned in Arturi's story is too similar to the Roman couple, the two couples are simply like treating their daughter as a fortune tree, they seem to be desperately trying to squeeze something useful from the original owner, they used the original owner to rise to the title, and entered the imperial capital, got the reward of His Majesty the Emperor, and got rid of the previous poverty.
But all this is just her speculation, and it is not necessarily true if it is not confirmed. Arturi's mind is too complicated, there seem to be seven or eight meanings in a sentence, no matter how you taste it, you can taste different ideas, but he stopped halfway through his words, Lily asked him, eager to know what was going on, but he just reached out and hugged her tighter:
"When you become my true lady one day, I should naturally be loyal to you, and I should not hide anything." When he said this, his tone was very calm, but when he heard Lily reach out and push him, he just laughed twice, and was not angry at her anger, but was a little indulgent, and made her impatient, and came to coax her again: "Okay girl, the bedtime story is over, I think you should give me a goodnight kiss, it's time to sleep!" ”
He made up his mind that he would not say any more, no matter how much Lily urged him, to no avail, and although she was a little unwilling in the end, she had no choice but to give up her plan to force Arturi to speak again.
Just listening to this story, Lily's heart was in a mess and she couldn't sleep at all.
If the story told by Arturi is true, and the protagonists Lily boldly assumes that the twins are the original owners and Anna, then the mission will be even more complicated than before.
In Lily's opinion, although the original owner was sent to the Temple of Light by her parents since she was a child, and raised her as a bargaining chip, but in the plot and her memory, she has not suffered any big hardships, nor has she suffered any great torture, although her parents have always been eager to get more and better rewards from her, but her parents have not treated her badly. When the original owner was young, although the Roman family was poor, the Roman couple still raised her as a noble girl and disciplined her strictly, even if the family had borrowed money to get along, they still hired teachers to teach her etiquette, customize beautiful clothes for her, and teach her how to enter the upper class.
The Roman couple themselves grew up in such an environment, and for them, this is the best they can give their daughter, although in the end they are suspected of using their daughter as a show-off object, but they have also given love to the original owner, even if this love is nothing in Lily's eyes.
Although they sold the original owner to the major nobles, it was at best for the two couples. It's because chastity isn't an expensive thing in their minds. The relationship between men and women in the Luolan Continent is very open, and a candidate saint can have several knights as their pillow people, and they can choose to become the lover of a certain magnate and use the power of these magnates, which is a common law among nobles, and they do not think so.
The original owner has not encountered many setbacks in her life, and if she insists on it, then the only harm is that she has always thought that she would be loyal to herself. Brian, who was following her, was snatched away by Anna.
Think of these. Lily finally found out that something was wrong, she had been in a misunderstanding, and every time she went on a mission, she wanted to fulfill her wish for the unwilling and dissatisfied original owner, and this time she thought it was the same. So when it comes to the mission. In the absence of receiving the full plot. When she didn't find out what the original owner wanted, she began to feel that something was wrong.
But this time she was not interrupted by any external force when she received the plot, she always thought that something was wrong. Trying to find a clue, she found Anna, and she thought that this Anna might be the reason why the original owner couldn't look at it, but unfortunately she guessed the beginning correctly, but guessed the ending wrong.
In this mission, no matter how you look at it, Lily feels that the original owner is not the object that needs to complete the task, although her life is not perfect, but compared to Anna, who became a slave girl, she is much better, even if she is pinched by her parents as a chess piece, even if she loses Brian, at most she is a little emotionally injured, this time the lack of the plot is not necessarily as Lily thought before, it was because of some kind of mistake, so she did not receive the complete plot, Or maybe she lost an important part of the plot, she began to guess at this time, maybe the real plot is really only here, the original owner doesn't hate or resent Anna, and it's not necessarily because the plot didn't progress to the end, it may be true that she doesn't hate Anna.
If these conjectures of Lily are correct, then the question arises, if this time the task does not belong to hers, then who should it belong to?
She thought of Anna, who was more like the object of her previous missions than the original owner.
Anna became a slave girl, she was sent to the gladiatorial arena, where she fought with wolves, and they were all children of parents, if she didn't know the truth, but what if one day she knew the truth?
If she knew that she was obviously supposed to be a proud nobleman, but because of the relationship between twins and born a few minutes later than her sister, she was ruthlessly abandoned by her parents, she fell from a noble nobleman to a lowly slave girl, and her sister, who had the same mother and the same blood, became a candidate saint for the temple, high up, between a cadre of nobles, she was the lowly life who fought in the gladiatorial arena, she needed to fight with the evil wolf in order to survive, to eat in order to bury her stomach, And her sister sat in the stands with a proud nobleman, watching her wander between life and death, and seeing how embarrassed she was.
This kind of unwillingness destroys the good thoughts in a person's heart. If she didn't know the outcome, Anna would probably accept her fate, but if she did, she would be resentful.
And most importantly, if Anna dies in the end, then according to Lily, the more unwilling people are, the more likely they are to pay the price of their souls and summon people to help her fulfill her wishes.
Remembering the day at the ball, in the birch grove outside the castle, Anna was bare-legged, smiling and telling Brian that she wanted him to kill her, and Lily tensed.
This time, it is possible that she is not the one who completed the task, but it is very likely that she has become a person who has been completed by others.
There is a great possibility that she has entered someone else's quest and become the object of another quest to kill her to complete the task!
If all of Lily's guesses were true this time, and if the premise of the story that Arturi said really meant the original owner and Anna, then Lily would have been wrong in the first place. She positioned herself as the one who completed the task, she regarded herself as a hunter, and Anna as a prey, but it was only at this time that she realized that it was possible that she had just entered someone else's task, and she became one of the pawns that would be killed by the tasker, and she was not a hunter in the first place, but became the prey in the eyes of the hunter.
No wonder this time she felt a little powerless, she felt that her strength had been greatly reduced.
I have been practicing the Tao Te Ching for several days, but I haven't made much progress. Her mental power has been severely suppressed, she has been greatly affected by the original owner, she is often easily restless, and even she can't receive the complete plot in her opinion, if all this speculation is true, then the fundamental reason for all this is not that something is wrong, but just because the person who received the complete plot is not her, in layman's terms, she has become a supporting character from the protagonist, and has become a person who will know the original plot. And the supporting role of the tasker's revenge that received a lot of memories is just that.。
Think of these. The cold hairs on Lily's back almost stood up. This situation has never been encountered since she was doing tasks for a long time, she has met other taskers in the mission, but she also has a complete plot at that time. Therefore, it is easy to find the difference between the tasker and the original owner. She can be vigilant. She has a certain advantage, so she can take out the tasker before he can make a move.
But this time there was no sign of it. Even because this Anna only appears by name in the plot, she can't find out the weirdness and difference of this Anna at all, she doesn't have more doubts and associations about this Anna, if it weren't for the story that Arturi told her tonight, she would still be kept in the dark, her strength was weakened, her mental power was suppressed, and she would even be affected by the original owner.
Could it be that this is what Li Yanxi said at the beginning, as the task progresses, the tasks she has to do will only become more and more difficult?
If everything in her guess is true, then does it mean that what she thinks this time may be an advanced saint or something, which is not necessarily the original owner's wish at all? She just needs to make sure she lives well?
Lily was so distraught that she couldn't sleep at all. She tried her best to calm down, but she couldn't sleep at all with so much in her heart, and she reached out to push Arturi's chest, and couldn't help but ask him:
"How do you know this?"
"Bedtime stories, I made them up, do you like them?" He didn't reply for a long time, and after a while he answered the question. Lily was stunned for a moment, and then a little annoyed, he seemed to say everything, but he didn't say anything, which made Lily a little anxious, this is about her life, she is inevitably a little anxious, this feeling of confusion is too bad, the authenticity of this news will be related to all the decisions she makes.
If she chooses to believe Arturi's words, as long as she saves her life and guarantees that she does not become the object of Anna's revenge, then this time she will complete the mission. But if Arturi's words on this mission are really as he said, just made up casually, then if she gives up becoming a saint just to survive, this mission will be considered a failure.
In the same way, if Anna is really one of the taskers this time, and can do such a task now, and against her, Anna will not be worse than her, she is now much suppressed, and it is very likely that she will die in the hands of Anna, and the task is once again at an impasse here.
Even if Lily was calm, thinking of this time, she began to feel a little depressed, and she couldn't help but raise her voice: "Arturi! ”
"Ma'am, I hear you." He still replied so unhurriedly, his tone had the characteristic slow taste of nobility, Lily's anger resisted in front of him, as if he was all contained in this voice, he seemed to be a high god, looking at the mortals in front of him pleading, crying and scolding, always so calm, except for his hand that was getting tighter and tighter, Lily was so close to him, and even through the thin shirt under his hand, she could feel the frequency and sound of his heartbeat, but she couldn't figure out his thoughts.
She was a little frustrated, and a little helpless, her anger didn't work for him, and even her joys and sorrows didn't seem to affect him at all, Lily inexplicably began to feel a little depressed, she no longer struggled, she didn't speak, and the hand that was originally pushing his chest began to relax her strength, and she seemed to accept her fate. (To be continued......)
PS: Double more in one......
I've not been in a good state lately.,Maybe it's because I'm too tired.,I didn't write the feeling everyone wanted.,It's my fault.,I'm sorry everyone.,Kiss it~.
Thank you for always being tolerant of me, love you......
So today I'm more ~~~~~ in one
But in order to take revenge on the silver that said I was verbose, I have been silently taking a notebook to write down the names of these children's shoes, so the most critical small plot, I cut it out, ahhahahahahaha
See you tomorrow, Dabao...... Lala-la-~~~~~~~~~~la-