Chapter 17: Gustav's Plea
Meng Yang stood there stunned, and the female archer Phoenix walked to his side at some point, still dressed as she had been wearing a hood, carrying a longbow in her hand and carrying an arrow bag on her back.
"I could have shot it in the eye, but there were too many people in the gathering place for me to provoke it. This is the city of despair after the fall, and we can only struggle to survive. Phoenix's voice calmly explained why she hadn't taken aim for the Sawtooth Tiger when she had just attacked.
Meng Yang could naturally see that with the size of Fang Cai's sawtooth tiger, if he was completely provoked, the thirty or fifty old and weak women and children in this fortress could only be waiting to be slaughtered.
Everyone in this fortress, including himself, was really able to pose a threat to the sawtooth tiger, but in fact it was only the female shooter Phoenix. Therefore, except for the first arrow that hit the sawtooth tiger, the other arrows played a threatening role.
"Did you come to me in particular?" Meng Yang glanced at the female shooter Phoenix and asked.
Phoenix shook her head slightly, there was still not much expression on her cold face, she just said lightly, "The teacher wants to see you, come with me!" ”
"How's Gustav doing?"
Meng Yang asked, but the female shooter in front of him completely ignored him.
Through several narrow passages, Meng Yang could see many women, children and old people curled up all the way, all of them were in a very miserable state.
The two soon came to a simple wooden house, and just as the middle-aged woman named Sheila came out of the room.
"Teacher, he'......" Phoenix asked in a calm voice, glancing at Sheila, who had just come out.
The middle-aged woman shook her head slightly, and said in a somewhat low tone: "My natural power can heal his wounds, but Mr. Gustav has come to the end of his life." ”
"I see." The female shooter nodded, her face still calm, and left straight after answering.
When the middle-aged woman saw the female shooter Phoenix leaving, she didn't care, but smiled reluctantly at Meng Yang, "Mr. Gustav is waiting for you inside." ”
After saying that, he also turned and left.
"The old man can't bear it?"
Meng Yang was slightly panicked in his heart, Gustav was the first person he was familiar with in this other world, and the two had been together for a short time, but they could be regarded as having been born and died.
Hearing this news suddenly, especially in combination with the incident of the sawtooth tiger attack just now, Meng Yang couldn't help but feel a little upset for a while.
Meng Yang took a deep breath and slowly walked into the simple wooden house.
There were almost no utensils in the wooden house, on a fairly clean wooden bed, Gustav leaned on a wooden pillow, looked at Meng Yang who walked in, forced a smile on his face, and slowly spoke:
"I just heard that a sawtooth tiger is coming, I don't know if you're frightened, but...... This is our world! ”
Meng Yang frowned, and sat down on a low stool in front of Gustav's window, he always felt that Gustav, the old man, had something to say.
"I'm going to die...... I know you have something to ask me. Gustav coughed twice in succession, and suddenly raised his head and looked at Meng Yang with a strange look in his eyes, "You are actually not from the Eastern Continent. ”
Meng Yang was slightly stunned, not knowing why Gustav suddenly said this. In fact, Meng Yang didn't know what the East and West Continents and the Forgotten Lands were, and it was all made up in accordance with Gustav's words in order not to reveal the identity of the traverser.
"I think you've already guessed it."
Gustav sat up straight with some difficulty, a slightly apologetic smile on his old face, "Yes, you're right, I brought you into this world, Visitor from the Other World.
As I said before, I'm not a summoner, I just accidentally got a great summoning inheritance, but the abyssal dimensional membrane is sealed, and this summoning inheritance is useless.
After the destruction of the City of Despair, I gathered the few who remained here, hoping that they would avoid being left in the wilderness. But it's hard to live in this world, and it wasn't until I was caught by the pig-headed man that day, and in desperation, I tried to summon an elf to see if I could summon an unknown existence to come to this world. ”
"And I came?" Meng Yang asked in a trembling voice.
"Yes, you're here." Gustav nodded and replied, "At first, I thought I was hopeless about summoning an ordinary human to another world, but you are different after all. ”
"You gave me that summoning orb?" Meng Yang asked again.
"It's me." Gustav bowed slightly, "Just summon the elve, it belongs to you now." Summoning elves used to be the legacy of a summoner in the City of Despair, and I just borrowed its power to activate a random summon, so you and I didn't have any contracts before. ”
"I know there's something wrong with you, old boy!"
Meng Yang stood up abruptly and grabbed a handful of his hair fiercely, he had always guessed about Gustav.
He has been thinking about the problems since he inexplicably crossed into this other world, and as soon as he crossed over, he arrived in the pig-headed man's lair, and there was an old man who was also trapped by his side, and then he happened to be able to get a summoned elf who could summon the person in his world to come to this other world.
What a coincidence!
Moreover, Meng Yang could almost feel the change in Gustav's attitude.
At first, when the old man saw him, he looked desperate, but then he saw that he activated the summoning spirit, and after the summoned player defeated the pig-headed man, it seemed to ignite the flame of hope.
And Gustav was too calm about the performance of the players he summoned to help, and he was not curious at all.
Meng Yang now understood that the old man was watching everything from the sidelines.
"Can I go back to my world?"
Meng Yang was silent for a while, digested what Gustav said, and suddenly raised his head and stared at Gustav's old face with burning eyes and asked.
"I don't know." Gustav shook his head, "I'm not a summoner, I'm just an ordinary person who is hiding in Tibet, and I know something that others don't know, but your arrival is all accidental, I just activated the summoning elf, and then ......"
"You don't know?!" Meng Yang was furious, if he hadn't looked at Gustav's miserable appearance, he would have wanted to go up and give the other party two blows now.
Gustavus looked at Meng Yang's excited appearance, his face showed a trace of helplessness, his cloudy eyes stared at Meng Yang, and slowly spoke: "Your Excellency Meng Yang, I'm sorry to have brought you to this desperate world!" ”
For a rare time, he added the honorific title of Your Excellency to Meng Yang, and then continued: "I'm going to die, I don't know what your world is like, but I hope you can help me save the people living here." Here, it is too difficult for humans to survive. ”
"What?" Meng Yang was stunned, then came back to his senses, "Old man, you are a double kidnapping of morality and survival, why should I promise you?!" ”
"It's not easy to survive." Gustav once again said the words that had always been on his lips before, causing Meng Yang to be slightly silent.
After pondering for a while, Meng Yang looked at Gustav and slowly spoke: "You know that I am from another world, and the people I summoned are also from another world. ”
Gustav smiled sadly, as if he knew what Meng Yang wanted to say, and his face was a little more radiant, "No matter how bad it is, it can't be worse than now, isn't it?" ”
A wry smile appeared on Meng Yang's face, and he suddenly understood the thoughts of the old man in front of him.
Since Meng Yang crossed over, he summoned players to save himself, and he didn't want others to know that he was summoning people from another world, but the old man in front of him seemed to have no scruples about this, all he wanted was to hope that someone could save this place, so that the people in the city of despair who might still be surviving could live.
Looking at the last look of hope in Gustav's eyes, Meng Yang took a step back slightly, and his mood was complicated for a while.