In a dilapidated house, a half-grown child wearing a felt hat was lying pitifully on the windowsill, looking longingly at a few pirates who were tearing their legs of mutton and laughing loudly not far away...

He still vividly remembers that two weeks earlier the owner of the leg of lamb was leisurely eating hay in his family's sheepfold. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Mom, when are they leaving?"

The child looked back wistfully at the woman who was sitting at the square table and mending clothes, she looked to be about thirty or forty years old, with a sallow complexion, dull skin, thin palms, thick knuckles, and a thick layer of calluses.

"Shouldn't it be soon? After all, they've been here for many days..."The middle-aged woman's voice was a little hoarse.

"How fast is that?" The child asked reluctantly.

"At least a few more days, right?" The woman said uncertainly.

"A few days!? But I'm so hungry—" The boy touched his shriveled little belly and looked at his mother with a sad face.

"Hungry? Mother, there is also a piece of black bread that was hidden before, let's eat some first! When the pirates are gone, I'll go fishing with your father...", the woman said that out of nowhere she found a shabby gray cloth bag, which was uncovered layer by layer, revealing a small piece of dirty black bread.

There is a layer of white velvet on the surface of the black bread, which seems to have been somewhat damaged due to poor storage before, and when this piece of black bread appeared in front of one big and one small....

"Gollum!"

The woman swallowed at the mouth of the spit almost at the same time as his child.

The two of them looked at the fist-sized piece of black bread in silence, and they both knew that this was the only ration left in the family, for a long time... She finally spoke:

"Eat! My child..."

The half-grown man looked at the yellow-faced woman in front of him, and then at the small piece of bread in her hand, which was almost moldy, and finally shook his head stubbornly: "I'm not hungry..., this group of pirates has been watching more and more strictly, and catching voles is forbidden, right!" It's been a long time since I've seen my father, where has he gone? If he's there, there will be a way..."

Hopes bloomed in the child's eyes.

"He..., he's gone to find someone who can save us..."

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meanwhile

In the wilderness outside Tiha, a man in rags walked alone on the path leading to Tiha, his hair haggard, his hair was messy, and he had a few arrow wounds on his body, but it seemed to have been roughly treated, and the shaft of the arrow had been broken...

The depressed man seemed to have a sudden feeling in his heart, and looked back in the direction he had come from--the black pillar of smoke, like a dark cloud that had completely covered the village.

He turned his head

Tiha's huge black silhouette is in front of you...

"Wait for me!"

The man gritted his teeth and silently spat out three words in his heart, and went straight to Tiha.

Tiha City Gate

The two guards of the city were playing hache in boredom, and since the well-informed fat men had heard that the nearby village of Hain had been overrun by a gang of pirates, they had cowered in Tiha. However, in this way, their income is invisibly much less, and without the gold coins, these guys will naturally not be able to raise their energy and work seriously...

Leaning crookedly against the solid wall near the city gate, the spear in his hand stuck upside down in the soft ground under his feet, chatting with each other...

"Huh! Did my brother go to the tavern lately? ”

"Of course I went! Don't even want to know who I am? I haven't drunk alcohol for a day, so what? ”

"I heard that the hostess there is very beautiful! Have you seen it? ”

"Hostess? What kind of vision do you have, and that can be considered beautiful? I'm not afraid to tell you, there's a big beautiful woman in Tiha recently, you know? ”

"You mean 'Rose' Baron Lilith?"

Seeing this scene, the guard pretended to squeeze his eyes mysteriously and said:

"Oh, I tell you! I met Lilith in the tavern the day before yesterday! And Mistress Lilith didn't even wear a helmet, so I sat at the next table just in time to see it, and I don't lie to you, it's really beautiful! ”

"Huh! It's a pity, it's a pity... He is a baron of the second-class martial arts! An identity like yours can't be climbed in this life..."

"Ahem! I didn't think about how... Huh! Wait, there's business coming! ”

In the middle of his words, one of the soldiers suddenly saw a figure slowly walking in the distance...

As soon as the other guard saw someone, he hurriedly pulled out his spear on the ground and cooperated with the guard before him to block the city gate:

"Who? Hold it! ”

The man stopped, it was only the two guards who had a chance to look at this man, this guy was quite strong, his dark skin and face were scruffy and his beard looked like he hadn't taken care of for a long time, and the guards had found an arrow that broke in the middle and stuck it in his shoulder...

"This brother, I am a villager from Hain, and our village has been taken over by pirates! Let me in, I'm here to ask my lord for help..."

As soon as the two guards exchanged colors, one of them came up and hit the man in the lower abdomen with a kick: "Brother? Fuck your uncle! Who is your brother? I don't have a brother like you, I want to go in and hand over 5 silver coins first! ”

The guards were wearing thick leather boots at their feet, and this kick was full of force.

The man was also kicked by this kick, and he took a few steps back and was stunned, he was begging for a life at sea, and he went to sea today and didn't know if he could come back tomorrow, and he was kicked by this kick and also aroused a little anger, his eyes were red and he clenched his fists and was about to do it...

But when he thought of his wife and children who were still trapped in the village, he still endured it as soon as his strength was loosened, and said in a low voice:

"Two big brothers, I really don't have any money on me, I don't believe you can search it, let me in! It's really urgent..."

The guard who had previously beaten the man gave the other a look, and the other came up and searched the man's body carefully, and then shook his head at his companion.

No? The guard looked the person in front of him up and down, and a wave of anger inexplicably rose in his heart: "No money!" You dare to come here to entertain your uncle? Lao Tzu beat you to death! ”

As he spoke, the spear was held back as a stick, and it was a stick on the opponent's head.

Blood...

Leaving from the forehead, through the furrows on the man's face, converging into a stream...

He stuck out his tongue and licked it...

Salty, with some irony smell.

Is this anger? The man suddenly felt a buzzing force in his heart, and his whole body was perfused with the beating of his heart...

Rose... The blood seemed to increase suddenly, and the blood vessels in the body were bursting out, which looked extremely terrifying.

The man who described the despondent man stood on the spot and his forehead was dripping with blood, the whole person was like a boiled prawn, the green tendons of his whole body were bursting up, and the blue blood vessels on his body were like small snakes that were retracted and released with the beating of his heart.

"He—" The guard watched in surprise as the man in front of him changed.

"Chop! Die! ”

With a roar, the man raised his fist and struck the guard on the head, and the moment the fist was struck, it began to become congested and turned red...

"Bang! Click! ”

The guard was still holding the spear in his hand and didn't have time to react, he was hit by a man in the face, and with a crisp bone crack, his entire head exploded like a watermelon, exploding into a blood mist...

"This is- Bloodline Frenzy!? "The other man saw this and ran away, but fortunately, the down-and-out man didn't seem to be conscious and didn't catch up...

When the guard ran away, the bloody guy looked at the red and white ones in his hands in a bit of confusion, and walked towards Tiha City with a mutter...

"Xiu'er..."