"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

A violent cough echoed through the trees, startling away many of the birds resting in the trees.

Brandi opened his confused eyes, and the shadows of the leaves in his vision blurred the boundaries of the sky.

"Who am I, where am I, what's wrong with me?"

The triple question from the soul made Brandi a little stunned.

"Oh, by the way, my name is Brandi, the second prince of the Honoris Empire, and I was forced to flee to the Southern Continent in order to escape my brother's pursuit......"

Brandi shook his head, struggled to prop up his upper body, and leaned against a low tree.

He has been in Nanlu for more than two months, and he thought that he could go smoothly with Die'er, but he didn't expect that Die'er had never gotten off the boat since he was born, so he couldn't talk about leading the way.

The two of them started to march from the shore, Brandi judged the direction according to the trajectory of the sun, intending to find a small orc tribe, he was once a prince of the empire, so he knew that there were many races of orcs, and not all orcs were barbaric and unreasonable.

But he never imagined that the northern part of the southern continent would be so desolate, except for Butterfly, he had never encountered an orc.

And a few days ago, when he spent the night at the water's edge, he was bitten on the calf by a water snake again, and he thought that the water snake was not venomous, but now he ......

Brandi's lips were dry and broken, and his throat seemed to be about to burn, and he carefully lifted his trouser legs, which were now completely blackened and atrophied, and two pin-and-eye wounds had suppurated.

And the toxin still has a tendency to spread upward, and now it is not a matter of whether he can continue to walk, but that his right leg has completely lost sensation, and it is all up to Butterfly to carry him on a simple stretcher these days.

Brandi covered his eyes with his hand and looked at the sun in the sky, I don't know how far they have deviated from the line in the past few days, if I am not mistaken, the two of them should be heading in a southeasterly direction.

"Are you awake?"

There was a sound of incitement of wings, and the butterfly landed softly next to Brandy, holding the carapace of a turtle filled with water.

Brandi nodded, now that he couldn't even speak, he felt a little feverish, "Maybe the toxin has entered his brain." He thought.

Butterfly was still wearing the same black cloak, but in order to spread her wings, she had two holes in her back.

"You drink some water first, my father said, if you are bitten by a sea snake, there is really no way, drink more water will not be uncomfortable. ”

The edge of the tortoiseshell reached Brandy's mouth, moistening his lips and teeth, calming the uneasiness in his throat.

"Huh...... You're really comforting. Brandi shook his head helplessly.

"Let's go for a walk again today, and see if there is a thicker wooded place in front of us, so that we can pick two wild fruits. Butterfly said, and brought the stretcher from not far away, and Brandy's precious long sword was also used as a cross pillow for her head.

Brandi refused, because the sword was really precious, the ancestral sword of the royal family of Honoris, and it was the only thing he could get his hands on to regain the throne in the future.

But now that he has lost half his life, he can't stop Die'er's will at all.

"Yes...... The sun is too hot at noon, you don't think about me, you have to think about yourself, I see that your wings are a little wilted. ”

"......" Butterfly pursed her lips and did not speak, but hid in the shade of a tree on the side, pulling the ground with branches indiscriminately.

Looking at the ants on the ground, Die'er was a little distracted for a while, she missed her father a little, although there was nothing under the cabin, she could still see her father every day.

And that glowing human brother, why did he leave alone?

"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it. Suddenly, Brandi spoke to herself, and Butterfly looked at her.

"I didn't expect that I didn't die in the hunt of Honoris, nor did I die in the mouth of the demonic beast in the stormy sea, but I finally fell here, cough cough...... Perhaps my choice was wrong from the start, and even the gods didn't want to see a human turn to orcs for the throne. The more Brandi spoke, the more lonely she became, and finally looked at the fallen leaves on the ground and said nothing.

"My father said that if this happened to the sailors on the ship, they would still survive if they broke one leg. ”

Brandi smiled helplessly, sighing at Butterfly's innocence, and at the same time, Yu Guang unconsciously skimmed his calf.

When the sun was setting in the west and the weather was not so hot, Brandi couldn't resist the butterfly, and lay on the stretcher again.

The butterfly flared her wings vigorously in front, and two vines on her shoulders pulled the stretcher behind.

A few more days passed, and Brandi's leg still showed no signs of improving.

"Butterfly...... Go on your own, leave me alone, you're an orc, there's no safer place than here. ”

Mosquito-like words came out of Brandi's mouth, but there was no response from Butterfly.

"No, you're a friend of that human brother, and I can't leave you behind. Die'er thought to herself.

Even though Brandi dissuaded her over and over again, Butterfly still stubbornly pulled the stretcher, from morning to afternoon, from afternoon to evening.

It wasn't until the moonlight sprinkled on the earth that the butterfly, which was finally unable to support her physical strength, finally fell down, panting for breath in a fallen leaf.

At this time, Brandi was motionless, and he was already unconscious.

Butterfly rested for a while, pulled the stretcher to the tree, picked some wild fruits from the nearby woods, ate a few for herself, and left a few more for Brandy.

She didn't dare to start a fire, because it would attract wild beasts, "Wait, maybe tomorrow we can see my people." ”

Butterfly hid under the tree and thought quietly, when suddenly, a breeze blew across her face.

Butterfly's eyes widened and she sniffed the air, the smell of the sea breeze, "Are we walking back to the beach again?"

Just as Die'er stood up and wanted to fly over to take a look, she suddenly felt something bite her back, and then she fainted on the ground.

In the bright room, Butterfly slowly opened her eyes, turned her head to look around, and saw an old orc sitting beside her.

"Kid, are you awake?"

"You...... Are you?"

"I'm the shaman of this tribe, and you accidentally triggered the trap we put in the hunting place, but fortunately it's just anesthetics, and it's not a big deal. ”

Butterfly nodded, looking at the ...... in front of her The nezumi, because it must be called the nezumi, she was not sure, after all, this was the first time she had seen an orc except for her mother.

"That...... What about that person?" Butterfly came back to her senses and suddenly thought of Brandi, who was a human, and her father said that humans met orcs...... It's going to die.

The old man smiled and motioned to her not to worry, "He's next door, don't worry, we're here...... It's just a small tribe, only orcs settle here within a radius of hundreds of miles, and we have also seen some humans, and there was a misunderstanding at first, but later it was found out that they are actually divided into good and bad people. ”

"That ......"

The old man shook his head: "It's almost dying, and you still don't want to leave it, at least you should give him a chance to be a good person, right?" ”

Butterfly blinked, then put on her black cloak and followed with wings.

In the next room, Brandi was awake, but he was so weak that he couldn't move a finger, so he could only watch the nezumi beside the bed, smearing a bottle of viscous green liquid on his lap.

"It's hard to say, the nezumi may be saving me, or they may be trying to eat me. Brandi thought to herself.

"Brandy!" Butterfly suddenly pushed the door in and landed next to Brandy.

Brandi turned his head and saw an elderly nezumi behind Butterfly, and saw Butterfly say something to the nezumi who was wiping something on himself.

After so many years of development, the language of orcs and humans has similarities, but they do not understand each other, so Brandi cannot understand what they are saying.

After a while, Butterfly turned around and whispered to him, "Brandy, they say you can still be saved, but they need to use poison to expel the toxin, so your leg may ...... will become lame. ”

Brandy's eyes shrunk and he was silent for a long time before he finally spoke: "Is it better to be lame than to lose your life and cut off, Butterfly, I believe in you, tell them, whatever they do." ”

“...... Good. ”

Butterfly then translated his words as they were, and the nezumi nodded, continuing to rub the green liquid on Brandy's legs.

"Let's go, he needs to calm down now. The old man said with his hands behind his back.

Die'er turned around to signal Brandi's peace of mind, and followed the old man out.

At this time, the sky outside began to light up, and the old man looked at the sky silently, and suddenly said, "You didn't grow up in Nanlu, did you?"

Die'er was surprised: "I ...... I grew up at sea. ”

The old man bent over and said with a smile: "Butterfly people don't like water by nature, but you have an endless smell of sea, believe me, old man, my nose is very smart." ”

Butterfly chuckled and lowered her head, not knowing what to continue to say to this kind old man, who had grown up under the care of humans despite being orcs.

Suddenly, she thought of what Brandi had said, what throne or orcs or something, although she didn't know what a throne was, she still knew that Brandi should want to go to a place with many orcs.

Thinking of this, Die'er immediately asked, "You...... Do you know where this is?"

The old man was stunned for a moment, shook his head and replied: "In the northern part of the South Continent, near the eastern coast, this was once the home of the orcs, but now it ...... Just a forgotten tribe. ”