Chapter 50: The Man in the Fire
When she heard the wind behind her, Rei turned her back because she was a little worried about Julius behind her. But this time, her eyes were dark, and then something more blood-red covered her vision, and the blood-red thing was a little warm, pressing her eyes down on her cheeks, and then to her mouth. It's liquid...... And it's the fluid in her own body, the water of life that's very important for a life.
It's blood.
When she felt a strong pain from her forehead to her eyes, she rolled to the ground, covered her head with her hands, and screamed in pain. At this time, she tasted what her blood tasted like, a little salty, hot, and made her head a little hot.
It's not that she hasn't tried to bleed, a lonely child like her, as long as she doesn't do something too out of the ordinary, adults don't care much, but if it's the same child, it's going to be on her. Bullying is not uncommon, but Rei has never been a submissive person, her resistance is always fierce, and victory is always on her side. Gradually, no child dared to come near her. Then she became completely alone, and she didn't even have a person to communicate with, who was about the same age. It wasn't until she met Julius, a guy who was not much older than her, that life seemed to change a little.
Thinking of Julius, when Lei fell to the ground, she was going to call Julius to run, but she couldn't, the pain had made her lose the ability to speak, and even if she remembered Julius, she couldn't organize the words to tell him to go. In the blood-red vision and darkness, she could vaguely see Julius standing in front of her, his hair tossed by the wind. Julius's shouts fell into her ears. Although she didn't know what Julius's situation was like now, she knew that he was definitely uncomfortable right now.
The black-robed men didn't know what to say, and Julius's response didn't seem so friendly, and it seemed impossible to talk - Rei had a feeling that they would never let go of the two rats that had broken into this place.
If he had escaped on his own, he would have been able to escape...... Lei doesn't have any resentment because Julius abandoned him, going underground is inherently risky and dangerous, as long as it's not a betrayal, then who dies and who lives, sometimes it's not my turn to decide. If at least one person could escape, and that person couldn't be herself, Ray hoped that Julius would escape and not waste her life. With Julius's abilities, Rei thinks he can escape, as long as he doesn't have her burden.
If she could, Rei would have hoped that she would have escaped with Julius, but if she had only hoped, it probably wouldn't have come true.
Rei's mind became in a trance because of the pain, and it seemed that a short period of time had become long, and she thought about a lot of things at once. But her only hope now may not be realized—in her hazy vision, she seems to see the light of fire, which seems to be a human form, and the voice of that human form sounds like Julius'......
Rei groaned and tried to crawl towards Julius, but as she got closer, the flaming figure seemed to reach out and kick her away. The kick was very light, gently pushing her away, not letting her suffer such horrible torture as well.
Lei had no strength left, and after being pushed away, she could only continue to lie on the ground, looking at everything in front of her with hazy eyes. The flame that looked like Julius gradually stopped moving, and lay on the ground, looking like a small bulge on the ground, and the flame burned quietly.
Seeing that Julius was no longer moving, the old black robe knew that the little imp was probably dead, so he took the magic book back into his robe, "Finally out of breath...... It's a shame that I've not seen such a resilient young man for a long time. ”
"Maybe it's a guy with a bit of a special talent. "I'll take his corpse to be disposed of later, and maybe we'll be able to use it—maybe it'll be the ingredients for a good meat puppet." ”
The young black robe said something that made people feel creepy lightly. These words made the old man's face look unpleasant, he was a very traditional mage, and he actually had a natural rejection of necromancy, and although this young man was not a necromancer, he did not have any taboo in this regard.
"The little girl. The old black robe looked at Lei, who was squirming and struggling on the ground, and she had crawled to Julius, who had been burned to black charcoal, but could not get up, but could only lie on the ground.
"She couldn't die for a while, and if the wind blade had slashed directly at her head, she would have been dead a long time ago. "There's no way this kid can stay and protect her—if he dies, he'll probably have to flee on his own." ”
The young black robe walked towards Lei, "But for a child, the feeling of a small wind blade slashing into the face should be painful, after all, children are not so strong in pain tolerance. ”
The young black-robed man walked over and saw Lei clearly through the light source around him. Rei's head was now stained red with blood, and there was a blood-red scar from her forehead to her right eye, which had cut her skin open, revealing the bright red flesh underneath. This wound is shocking, but it is not just a wound that makes a child cry, if this wound falls on the body, then I am afraid that the bones have already been seen, even if it is an adult, with such an injury, it will probably collapse in pain. Lei's current performance is already stronger than many people.
Regarding this, it also made the young black robe a little surprised, Lei can still maintain consciousness until now, this is indeed a thing worthy of amazement, the wound on her face is not fake, her ability to bear makes him can't help but let out a sound of admiration. "You're a very tenacious little girl, too...... Is this your brother who died? You're as strong as he is, but he's dead. ”
Rei must have heard this, but she couldn't do anything useful to resist, and she might have been able to throw a few rocks in normal times, but now she couldn't even do that.
"Don't worry, soon you will be with your brother too. I'm not going to let you die in such pain like your brother...... I don't have that interest. ”
The young black robe really had no interest in torturing people, but he didn't have a lot of blood on his hands, and he didn't have any resistance to killing a child—and a child's soul might be very good material.
Julius was long gone, and he relaxed and walked towards Lei. At his feet was the body of Julius, who was lying on the ground, motionless and black, and when he stepped over, the "corpse" that should have been dead moved.