Chapter 31: Erosion
"Wake up, child, destroy this world against our will", a ghost in black robe cried out to him in the darkness, the pale flames in front of him burned the earth to scorched earth, he saw himself incarnate as a giant demon, attacking people's villages and cities, tyranny and madness rising from his heart.
Faintly in my ears, I heard people's cries.
"No, Adams, cheer up. Another voice in his soul shouted at him, and it seemed to be a voice that didn't exist in this world. I'm Adams, I'm a demon, I'm Zhang Xiaojun, who am I?
He woke up from his dream and looked up. Only a small oil lamp was shining in the dimly lit room. The leather armor and cloak were gone, and he was lying on the bed half-fruited.
Adams tried to get up from the bed, the wound on his back still aching, and he touched it, a bandage.
Rubbing his eyes, he finally put his mind at ease, his leather armor and cloak hung neatly on the wall, and the Mithril dagger and the money bag that had just been refilled yesterday lay quietly on the bedside table.
There was a sound of light footsteps outside the door, and with a squeak, a girl with porridge walked in.
The girl was about sixteen or seventeen years old, slender and energetic, with long fluffy brown hair tied into a ponytail, and her skin radiated a beautiful glow of youth, and she smiled softly at Adams with a beautiful face.
"Thank you, Hero-sama. ”
The girl sat down on the edge of the bed, bringing with her a soft aroma of herbs, and she spooned a mouthful of hot porridge, put it to her lips and gently cooled it, and then brought it to Adams's mouth.
Adams couldn't figure out what was going on, and he felt like his memory was a little disjointed.
So he looked at the girl's gentle and delicate face suspiciously, "Wait......."
The girl looked at Adams with her sparkling eyes, an inquiring look on her face. Adams was a little uncomfortable with this pure gaze, and he swallowed what he wanted to say back into his stomach and tasted the porridge instead.
The porridge is delicious, with a faint sweetness in the rice grains. He smiled and took the bowl and spoon from the girl's warm and jade hand, and slowly swallowed the porridge into his stomach.
It was really delicious.
The girl smiled as she watched him drain the porridge, and she stretched out her hands to retrieve the cutlery from Adams's, and then stood up, her unwielding waist blooming in the light of the lamp.
The girl bowed slightly to Adams, and then left the room with a brisk whirlwind, and the room was empty again, leaving only the scent of her herbs and lingering notes.
"I'm going to tell my father that you've woken up. ”
......
The Hilton was middle-aged, but his temples were already a little gray, and he looked at the young man in front of him with an almost flattering gaze.
Adams was a little uncomfortable by his eyes, and he said to the alchemist, "Don't look at me like that, I don't think we're friends, in fact I'm robbing your property." ”
Hilton smiled wryly, "My lord, that's all in the past, thank you for saving my daughter from "Scarred". ”
Adams touched his head, he didn't understand what the other party was saying, he didn't remember what he had done to save the beauty of a hero, he hadn't even heard of something called "rotten scar".
As if seeing Adams' confusion, Hilton explained in a low voice that the man with the pox scar that day was the head of the land, which is the so-called "rotten scar", that is, he took the alchemist's daughter and monopolized the alchemist's materials, and coerced the alchemist to serve himself.
Adams was even more confused, he clearly remembered that the last man with the pox scar was killed by Hilton, of course, this had nothing to do with knocking the other party down, but the rest of the matter should have nothing to do with him.
However, he seemed to understand something immediately, so he looked coldly at the alchemist in front of him and asked unceremoniously, "Do you want to use me as your shield?"
The alchemist's smile became awkward, as if Adams had been told what he was talking about.
"My lord, as long as you are willing to protect our father and daughter, I am willing to serve you, my lord, I will make potions and magic rings for you, and I can also manage your territory for you......"
However, Adams interrupted him coldly, and he waved his hand to signal that the other party should not continue. He didn't have the idea of pulling himself into the struggle, and he didn't have the time to deal with these things that had nothing to do with him, he had more of his own things to do.
"I'm leaving here for the middle of the kingdom. ”
The alchemist's smile disappeared from his face, and he stammered to the young man, "There, it's even more unsafe there, my lord, the kingdom army and the traitors are fighting every day, even if you are an adult, you can't guarantee your safety." ”
"I know, but I'm going to my father, who is still there, and that's how simple it is. ”
Hilton lowered his head in a gloomy manner, the wrinkles on his face crumbling together.
Adams remembered the gentle girl just now, she was probably Hilton's daughter.
In fact, he liked this girl very much, maybe he had been engaged in the drug-related industry, and he felt an inexplicable sense of closeness to the herbal fragrance emanating from the girl's body.
If he could, he didn't mind helping the father and daughter, but now that he couldn't protect himself, the danger of demonization was closely following him, whether it was the hallucinations in the previous battle or the absurd and real dream, it all showed that the erosion of chaos on himself had begun to become profound.
In fact, this is not the first time that this situation has occurred, not long after Adams returned to the kingdom of Bato, he encountered several bloody battles in a row, and his mood became more difficult to calm down again and again.
At first, he thought it was caused by the suppression of his psychology caused by the first blood, but it wasn't until this outbreak that he realized that chaos had been affecting him.
"My lord, we are willing to go with you. ”
Hilton's words pulled Adams back from his musings again, and after thinking about it, he decided to reject the other party, he had too many secrets in him, and he didn't want to have too much contact with other people.
"I'm sorry, I'm used to being alone. ”
But before Adams' words could fall, the alchemist had already uttered something that shook him.
"My lord, I can see that your mental condition is not very good, take us with you, we will be useful. ”