In the wasteland, when she opened her eyes, she found herself hanging from a wooden cross, and in front of her was the light she had last prayed for.

The light shone on her, and she narrowed her eyes slightly, staring at the end of the light without moving, like a hanging corpse.

In fact, she did die once, and although Lawrence's bullet did not damage her physique hundreds of times that of ordinary people, she took the initiative to let the bullet pass through her forehead.

She died once, but only once, and it didn't affect her at all.

At first, she allowed herself to be tied to the cross, without struggling, she waited for something, she waited for the punishment of this sin.

She knew that punishment would come, but after a long time, she didn't feel any pain in her body.

Is it going to make her feel angry this time like the last time she felt lonely?

At first she thought so, but then she heard a voice. A voice that doesn't belong to her, and it doesn't belong to that voice.

There should be nothing else in the wasteland, and there shouldn't be any other sound.

Chu slowly raised her head, looking in the direction of the sound in confusion, and then her gaze froze there.

She saw a familiar figure coming from a distance, an orc, canine orc, with brownish-black hair, exactly like the one she had known before.

At first stunned, she watched it coming, and she recognized it.

Immediately afterward, memories of orcs surged from her dusty memories.

From their first encounter, fighting for corpses for food in the wasteland, to walking together and talking about their past, to their time and time again on the verge of collapse in the killing, only to be pulled back from the brink of losing their minds.

At that time, they were always sitting in pools of corpses and blood, and the orc looked vicious, but its personality was not like that, and it always talked about its homeland, especially the moon in its homeland.

When I thought of this, my eyes became calm when I first looked at the orcs.

But then she remembered the day she killed the orcs.

The blood that flowed through the palms of its hands, the orc's whimper, and its nostalgia for its homeland. At the last moment when it closed its eyes, it said it was cold, then it smiled again, and it said it saw the moon.

At first her emotions became complicated, and she didn't know how to face the other person.

But by this time, the orc had already walked in front of her, and at first he could see it clearly.

It was covered in blood, and its brown-black hair was clinging to the blood, looking ugly and dirty. There was a hideous wound in his chest, the same wound that had killed it at that time.

It looked at Chu with red eyes, and there was no sparkle in its eyes except for tyrannical anger.

The corners of its mouth opened, and it showed its white fangs and leaned in front of Hatsu.

It sniffed the tip of its nose on Hatsu's body, as if to determine Hatsu's identity, and then looked at Hatsu with its red eyes.

"You, why did you kill me?"

Its voice was hoarse, with a deep resentment.

Unable to answer at first, she wanted to say something, but found that she couldn't speak.

Then, the punishment began.

She was hung from the cross, and the orcs did not hesitate to disembowel her with their claws, tearing and gnawing at her entrails almost in a frenzy, devouring her flesh and blood, with a vengeful pleasure in their eyes.

The initial pain felt a temporary recovery, and it was even aggravated several times, but she would not die.

She could clearly feel every one of her internal organs being bitten by the orcs, and she could also feel her heart being pinched into flesh.

But none of that hurt the most, the most obvious pain was the orc's anger at her, and the way it gnawed at her entrails.

Because she knew that the orcs deserved peace after death, not here, to be tormented for her sins.

At this time, Chu already understood that the orc in front of her was no longer the orc she knew, it was just a walking corpse, manipulated as the executor of this punishment.

This punishment continues, and the orc will leave after eating the first internal organs, and the next day, when the internal organs in the first body have grown again, it will return.

And when the orcs are not there, they will not get a respite at the beginning. The light that shone on her would become incomparably hot, and thus become another kind of torture.

The endless wasteland was empty, only a cross and a light.

On the cross, the messenger was weakened by the blazing light, and his head hung down.

It must have been the tenth day, when the tenth scratch had been carved on the cross with a bloody finger, when the orcs came again.

Chu lowered her head, she didn't want to look at the orc's resentful eyes.

The orcs began to gnaw at her internal organs, but this time it was unknown why.

The orc stopped halfway through eating, and looked in pain, clutching at its throat and scratching its neck with its claws, making its skin open.

Finally, there was a reaction.

She looked at the orcs in pain, slowly, looking up at the sky, her chapped lips open, her voice hoarse in pleading.

"Let it go. ”

She prayed for peace for the dead, but did not ask for forgiveness for herself.

But the voice ignored her, and the punishment continued, again and again.

I don't know how long it took, until one day the orcs didn't come back, and the cross behind the first body began to decay, slowly weathering, and shattering into powder.

Hatsu fell to the ground, his cheeks stained with red-black dirt.

At this point, the voice finally appeared, and it answered the request of Hatsuha.

"The punishment can't be stopped, and I think you can understand that. ”

Chu fell there, and couldn't even lift her eyes, and it was a long time before he replied in an inaudible voice.

"Hmm. ”

She was exhausted from the sin, but she continued to ask.

"Where did it go?"

Naturally, she asked the orc.

"I've set it free. The voice gave Hatsu an answer, and then left silently, as if he wanted to leave Hatsu a little time to rest alone.

It wasn't until he heard this answer that Chu finally seemed to let go of something, closed his eyes, and fainted.

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By the time Chu woke up again, her body had almost recovered, the pain disappeared again, and the sin in her body became even greater.

In one sense, she has become stronger, but in another sense, she is now weak, she is too tired.

In the wilderness, the light shone beside Hatsu, becoming soft and warm again, and Hatsu found a place to sit down at random.

She stared blankly into the empty distance, and suddenly, she said to the drowsy sky.

"Are you there?"

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"Do you have any questions?" a voice appeared in the sky.

There was no superfluous look on Chu face, but with doubts in his eyes, he hesitated and asked.

"What is sin?"

The voice apparently didn't expect Hatsu to ask such a question, it didn't answer, this was the only time it didn't answer Hatsu's question, just waited in silence.

Because perhaps, even it doesn't know the answer.