Chapter Forty-Six: The Long Way Home
"What you sprinkled in the campfire wasn't what kept mosquitoes away. Olga, who was witnessing all this, suddenly spoke up and said to Lulunaka, "That thing attracts the undead. ”
Lulunaka shook her head, as if she didn't agree with Olga's words, but what she said had nothing to do with Olga's question, "He also has a name, Lord Olga, and his name is Tours." You can't just strip him of his name just because he's dead, right? ”
Olga was speechless for a moment, he had expected Lulunaka to refute something, but what came out was something else. However, Lulunaka's words do have a point, and the dead should be respected. "It was my rudeness. So, what did you use to draw Tours to our side?"
Olga continued to ask Lulunaka with the question. He couldn't help but wonder that although the Forest of the Dead was called the Dead, at least half of the area was where it was difficult to see traces of the undead. The Crescent Empire has occupied this area for almost a hundred years, and the roads between the places are paved with the blood and sweat of the soldiers and laborers of the Crescent Empire, and the Forest of the Dead is also under the rule of the Crescent Empire.
Although the east is much more deserted than the south, and the roads have become deserted, it does not change the fact that this was once a place pioneered by the Crescent Empire. Decades ago, the traces of the undead were no longer found in places other than the north, only in the north, to the south of the mountains close to the wyvern breeding, there were still traces of the undead. Travelers who survived their lives, and merchants who lost so much and lost their lives, all spoke of the horrors of the northern part of the Dead Forest, and they became witnesses to the unkill, warning everyone not to travel north with curiosity and adventure.
It was where the undead roamed, and further north was the breeding ground of the wyverns, who were even more terrible than the undead.
However, the danger should be limited to the north. And now, in a place like the eastern part of the Forest of the Dead, there is once again a movable skeleton, an undead.
Olga didn't think that Tours had come here by accident, Lulunaka had done too many things that seemed inexplicable before Tours arrived, and some things have now been explained, but some are still under mystery.
And in the mist, there is this series of things that Lulunaka does.
"Of course, it's something to repel mosquitoes. Lulunaka replied, "But I've added some extra effects, and they're harmless to humans after all." ”
That's when Patin interjected, "But what you're attracted to is harmful...... Mainly for the living. ”
To the average person, the undead are more than just outward horror. If the death qi brought by the undead is strong enough, it can affect ordinary people, mainly in the form of making people feel chills, and then infected with diseases such as wind chills. If it is a high-level undead with a special death aura, then it will bring more than a little wind chill. Diseases that cannot be cured by medicine, colds that cannot be driven away by priests' divine magic, and even large-scale plagues...... These are all things that the undead may bring.
Silver class warriors like Olga and Patin, who have strong martial arts, naturally can't have much impact on the general undead spirit, but children like Julius and Romeona are not easy to say. That's why the two of them sat here, and the two of them sat here, like a wall, blocking all the factors that might have a bad influence on the two children. Whether it's death or fear – for two children who have never seen the world, seeing a skeleton that can move and talk is both a novel experience and a nightmare. An old and dilapidated skeleton is not as cute as a critter. His eyes were as bright as ghost fire, his skeleton was exposed, his voice was hoarse and unpleasant, and his laughter was even more impressive.
This was what Tours really was, not what he thought he was still alive, and he had only been away from the brutal battlefield for only a few days.
But in fact, the battle has long been over, and he has been dead for more than a hundred years.
"You yourself should know this very well. Lulunaka threw the question back to Patin and Olga about them, "Do you feel the slightest hint of death in Mr. Tours?"
In response to Lulunaka's rhetorical question, Patin and Olga glanced at each other. As Lulunaka had said, they really didn't feel the death of the undead, and when the two of them sat here, they only felt the warmth of the campfire, and there was no soul-seeping cold coming to them. Turs, with only a skeleton remaining, sat across from them, but he didn't emit the chill. Aside from his scary appearance and unpleasant sound, Tours looked no different from a living person.
Of course, if there is no flesh and blood for the living, they will surely die, and the living cannot live like bones. But the bones can speak and laugh like a living person, like a living person. At least part of the place looks like a living person.
Julius was always curious about what I was cooking, but he wouldn't come and ask me honestly, and only dared to hide and make assumptions that were very unfair to me. Lulunaka gestured to the small iron pot on the campfire, "I also noticed that he tried to smell what I was cooking with his nose, but unfortunately it wasn't something he could smell." ”
Lulunaka lifted the lid of the small iron pot, and it was empty—no, there was something in it, but it wasn't there in the traditional sense.
What is boiling and boiling in a small iron pot is not a liquid or a solid, but some gas. The gas was green, and it looked like it was frozen in the small iron pot, and it had the properties of a solid, but it was still a gas after all. No matter how you look at it, the green color that slowly turns like a small cloud in the small iron pot is all gas.
That's what Tours drank just now. Tours took it as a soup, and thought it tasted good, and drank several bowls before he patted his stomach contentedly and stopped.
To others, it was a skeleton of bones "drinking" the green and strange gas. As Tours' bones tilted their heads to drink the air broth, the green gas flowed into his mouth and then down his throat. Without flesh and blood, he naturally doesn't have such a thing as an esophagus, as a skeleton frame, there is no such soft thing, only the spine, a bone that connects the body and the head.
"Looks pretty, doesn't it, but a living man can't drink it, or he'll become a companion of Mr. Tours." Lulunaka laughed, "But if you just smell it, it's fine, as long as you don't drink it, then the gas won't enter your stomach, then seep into your bone marrow, and then invade your soul." ”
Tours is a moving skeleton, an undead, and a strange-looking undead - the undead who have lost their minds are more dangerous than animals, and most of those who still have a sense of life will become hateful. But Tours looks different.
But no matter how strange Tours is, in terms of weirdness, he is far inferior to Lulunaka, a young girl.
She did a lot of things that no one else could understand, and all kinds of strange things, not only attracted the undead, but also chatted happily with the undead, and when she finally said goodbye, she also freed Tours' soul from his remains and became a relatively harmless spirit.
From a green ghost to a blue spirit, Tours was transformed and given a chance to go home, at least in front of his door.