The three of them sat at the table and bowed their heads in thought, until the boss brought the food and drinks of the three of them, and the three stopped thinking and silently began to eat.

Seeing Anna's lively appearance, and thinking of the scene he saw last night, Zhou Lie's heart felt very heavy, in this time cage, this lovely girl would experience the fate of being killed every seven days.

Under Randy's mobilization, a large number of adventurers left the hotel and investigated the town again, the merchants were suspicious, but still used their unique way to inquire about the news, the hotel hall was no longer the lively scene before, only Zhou Lie and Layla were still sitting in the corner, one was fighting with Frem in his mind, and the other was holding an ancient magic book and absorbing knowledge.

There were no guests to entertain, the innkeeper and the proprietress went back to the back hall to rest, but Anna ran to Zhou Lie's side curiously and looked at the appearance of the two.

"Hasn't Anna seen an Oriental before?" Zhou Lie saw the little girl's eyes, and almost guessed what the other party was thinking.

"Well, I just heard that Oriental people are black-eyed and black-haired, and today is the first time I've seen them, and it's the first time I've seen someone with blue hair, my sister is so beautiful. Anna said, looking at Layla.

Layla smiled when she heard the little girl's innocent words, "In our Tionlis, there are people whose hair color is rarer than mine." ”

"Tionlis, is that the Magic City?"

"That's right, it's home to all magicians, the largest magical city in the world. ”

"I've heard stories about where every year I regret sending righteous magicians to help kings and knights expel monsters, is it true, and is the big sister also a magician?" Anna then asked.

"Well, that's right, every year magicians go out on a trip, and I'm one of them. ”

"Eh!," Anna exclaimed, in surprise, "can the big sister do some magic for me?" ”

The little girl's hopeful gaze instantly broke through Layla's heart, Layla nodded, and said with a smile: "Of course, you can see it." ”

The palm of her right hand is facing upwards, and after a long time, a water ball condenses out of thin air, like a crystal ball, after getting the permission of Layla's nod, Anna slowly stretched out her hand and touched the ball, and the place where her fingers touched rippled, oscillating around the water ball.

"It's water!" exclaimed, Anna.

Under Layla's control, the water balloon constantly changes its form, sometimes into a bird, sometimes into a kitten, and each time it changes, it will cause Anna to cheer.

"Every year at the Running of the Bulls, there will be jugglers performing, but it is not as fun as my sister's performance. ”

"Does Anna like Running of the Bulls?" asked Layla, stroking Anna's head.

"Of course, the Running Bull Festival is the best, our family only has guests during the festival, and when I make money, my mother will buy me delicious and fun things, by the way, I will show you my baby. After saying this, Anna jumped off the stool and cannon fodder in her room, but after a while, she came to the two of them with a cardboard box.

There were all kinds of toys and dolls in the box, and Anna put the little dolls on the table one by one and introduced them to Layla and Zhou Lie.

"They're all my playmates, this bear is named Wendy, that ragdoll puppy is Wren, and... ”

Each doll has its own name, and Anna introduced them one by one.

Among the dolls, Zhou Lie found a familiar thing, a brown bear, it looked like it had been a long time, and he vaguely remembered that that night, Anna appeared in the hall with this doll in her arms.

"It's my favorite playmate, he's been there for me since I was a kid, and his name is Tim. Anna picked up the brown bear and said, "I always hold it when I sleep, and I can only feel at ease when I hold him." ”

"You have so many puppets, so what else do you want for this Running Bull Festival?" Zhou Lie asked curiously, he never thought that a little girl's baby would be so many dolls, you must know that even his sister, when he left, his favorite was all kinds of good-looking shiny ornaments and colorful satins.

Anna listened to such a question, tilted her little head and thought for a while, and said decisively, "I want a little dress, and the other girls have little dresses, and I want one too, so that I can go to the ball." ”

"Prom?"

"Yes, the lord's mansion sometimes holds balls, and the pretty girls come by in little dresses, and I have seen them a few times, and each of them is as beautiful as a swan, and I want to be like them. ”

"Haha, that's called a dress, you have to wait until you're at least my height, and you'll grow into a big girl, and you'll have a chance to accept the invitation, and now you're just a child, and wearing a little dress can make those little boys swoon. Zhou Lie laughed.

Even though Anna didn't know what the word "fascinated" meant, she probably understood the mockery in Zhou Lie's tone, blushed, snorted and turned her head, indicating that she didn't want to deal with Zhou Lie.

Layla waited for a glance at Zhou Lie, blamed him for why he had added the last sentence, and then performed a few simple spells to make Anna smile again.

"Hey, that familiar feeling is so close!" Suddenly, Frem's voice came out of his mind, and Zhou Lie withdrew his laughing and lazy expression, and replied in the same heart, "Where?"

"It just feels very close, no more than ten meters away. ”

Ten meters, Zhou Lie looked around, there were only three of them in the hall, behind him was the hotel gate, outside the door was the street, was it on the street?

Zhou Lie jumped up and came to the street, there were a lot of people on the street, Zhou Lie anxiously asked, "Where is it?"

After a while, Frem said, "No, the other party is moving, I felt that the breath faded when you went out, and the other party didn't change after you stopped." ”

In a hotel?

Back in the lobby of the hotel, sure enough, Frem confirmed that the aura had become a little stronger, but it was still very vague and could not specifically locate the other party's location.

Ten meters away Zhou Lie looked up, the second floor was a guest room, and underground, presumably there was no tunnel or anything in this town, otherwise the soldiers would have killed it at that time, and the innkeeper could have taken his daughter to hide in the tunnel, and there was no need to come out and fight hard.

Zhou Lie quickly ran through all the rooms upstairs, he had no way to locate it, he could only rely on the strength of the feeling that Frem told him, to judge the distance of the other party, and as a result, in the end, Zhou Lie locked his eyes on the pile of puppets that Anna brought.

"When you get close to the puppets, it gets a very strong feeling, it's unbelievable, but it's there. Freem's voice was unemotional, coming from his head.

"What's wrong?" Layla asked when she saw Zhou Lie's unusual behavior.

Zhou Lie didn't know how to explain it, so he had to stare at the pile of puppets without saying a word, pick them up one by one and stroke them, and finally locked on the brown bear that Anna had to take with her when she slept.

"Are you sure that's it?" Zhou Lie wondered.

"Sure, you'll know when you pick it up. ”

Zhou Lie picked up the little bear, and the moment he touched it, he suddenly felt that something from his body was connected with the things in the little bear.

Then he fainted.

White.

A pure white mist shrouded the surroundings, and this scene Zhou Lie had seen before, and it was like this when Frem took him to the practice ground of the spirit world for the first time.

"What's going on?" Zhou Lie shouted.

"Frem?" Seeing that no one responded, Zhou Lie was a little panicked.

However, no one responded.

The fog lifted, the surrounding area became a green town, and the familiar sermons of the big-bellied lord readers in the square, the Ice Cream Running Bull Festival began, and then the nine cows galloped on the track.

"What's going on?" Zhou Lie wanted to grab someone and ask, but found that his hand passed through them.

"It's just a recreation of the scene, a record of the time. An ethereal voice came.

"Who are you?"

"I don't know who I am, but I've always been called Tim, and you can call me that. ”

It seems that he has heard this name, but for a while, Zhou Lie forgot it.

"Why show me this record. ”

"You'll know when you see the end. ”

After speaking, the voice disappeared, and no matter how much Ren Zhoulie called, he didn't come out.

The Running of the Bulls continued, people rejoiced in their homes, taverns, squares, the lords left the town after greeting the various shopkeepers, and people reveled from day to night, until they were exhausted and lay down to rest.

Then came the familiar sound of footsteps and armor grinding, a group of Imperial soldiers appeared at the gate of the town, and what happened next, just as Zou Lie had seen that night, a massacre began.

"Anna!"

Zhou Lie ran wildly and returned to the hotel, at which time the soldiers also broke in, the innkeeper and his wife fell in a pool of blood, and then, Anna appeared in the hall with a brown bear in her arms.

Zhou Lie remembered that the bear was also named Tim.

Anna was found crying in the hall, and the soldiers reappeared, but even if the other party was a little girl, they showed no mercy and still swung their swords, just as Zhou Lie had seen.

He tried to resist the blow, but in the end he could only pass through the opponent's body in vain, and he couldn't interfere with everything around him, so he could only watch Anna be killed.

And the moment the sword pierced Anna, time seemed to stop.

The long sword was inserted into Anna's chest, and the blood splattered in the air, everything stopped at this moment, and only Zhou Lie was moving freely.

"I don't want to die! I don't want my mom and dad to die, why is this happening, I want little dresses, I want to continue the holidays. ”

Anna cried and cried, and Zhou Lie didn't know how Anna spoke under this kind of injury.

"If only those good times didn't pass away, if only this nightmare day didn't come again. Anna continued to cry there.

The bear in his hand emitted a white light, and an inaudible voice came out, "Your wish, I received it." ”