Chapter 9: Night
After a while, everyone had recovered their strength, and they walked towards the city of Kerryton.
On the way back, Vince saw a lot of corpses.
It's not so much a corpse as a corpse. Blood soaked in blood, flesh after flesh, all of them became fragmented and blurred in the impact of the beast tide, and it was impossible to even distinguish whether it was a human corpse or not.
"Luckily, we bumped into a group of clawed leopards......"
Sosk said in a heavy tone.
The crowd followed behind Sosk with pale faces, unable to utter a word.
The Demonic Mist Forest, where the birds and flowers are still singing at noon, is simply a hell on earth at the moment under the smear of blood.
In fact, Corliss has Darkmoon's distress fireworks in his hands, and if he releases the fireworks in advance, maybe someone will rush to the slope to be saved.
However, during this time period, the powerful people are hunting the Darkhorn Cat in the leyline corridor, and most of the people in the Demon Mist Forest are people who are less than two stars like Vins and cannot pass through the magma layer, and such people may become a burden when they come.
Colliss placed Vince in the position of defending the beast tide head-on, and his intention was self-evident, but no one objected to this arrangement. Titch, who has the best relationship with Vins, can only take advantage of everyone's inattention to bless Vins with a spiritual shock, which is the only thing she can do as a two-star priest.
Sometimes, the rules of humanity are even more cruel than in this forest.
After walking for a long time, everyone returned to the periphery of the Demon Mist Forest and met the bodyguard group just now.
The bodyguard group was unable to enter the forest to rescue because of the beast tide, so they could only wait for the beast tide to disperse before rushing into the forest to find someone.
The group of monsters rushed to the edge of the forest and gradually stopped, and each of them hid in the depths of the dense forest. Between the human world and the Demon Mist Forest, there seems to be a red line that monsters cannot cross.
It was late afternoon when they returned to the city of Kerryton, and the crowd said goodbye at the city gates. Kesk and his party walked along Avenue of the Brave towards Uptown, and Corliss took Vince and Titch back to Darkmoon for a mission report. There was nothing to say all the way, and the three of them were in a very heavy mood.
At about nine o'clock in the evening, Vins and Tich walked out of the Dark Moon, and Kolis was still inside discussing an apology with Yerevan.
The March spring night in Caryton still had a chill in it.
Wince stretched his body and said to Tichy casually, "Would you like to go eat something?"
Titch grabbed the scepter behind his hands and walked sullenly as he stared at the ground, shook his head when he heard Vince's words, and said, "I have no appetite. “
After taking two steps, she continued with a hint of hesitation, "Vins, you were at the front when the beast tide came today. At that time, you, huh...... Have you ever thought you might die?"
I've thought about it, of course I've thought about it, when he chased the Darkhorn Cat, when he walked into the church, when he was discovered by those two adventurers, and when he faced the beast tide, he thought of death more than once, but what if he thought about it?
Wens thought this in his heart, but when the words came to his mouth, "The situation was so tense at that time, how could I have time to think about this? Standing in that position was naturally to block the monster." But today's luck seems to be very good, and it really blocked me. As he spoke, Vins laughed.
"Then you still dare to underestimate the enemy?"
Titch looked up, as if he had regained a little of his spirits.
Vince didn't answer, and he always had a strange uneasiness about this strange power.
Later, when you figure out what this power is, you can confess it to them.
Nine-o'clock in Caryton used to be a good time for drunks to have fun, but this spring's plague kept everyone at home.
Vince and Titch are walking down the empty Avenue of the Brave.
The bright moonlight sprinkled on the empty avenue of the brave, it was so quiet and gentle.
The two didn't speak for a long time, but kept walking. Vince wanted to break the silence by talking about today's employer, but when the words came to his lips, a deep sense of frustration surrounded him.
He glanced at Titch beside him.
The light veils of moonlight draped over Titch's shoulders. Titch bowed his head again, seemingly indifferent to the tenderness of the moon.
Vince took two quick steps, stood in front of Titch, pretended to pose as the swordsman on the Darkmoon Badge, and then imitated Yerevan's tone and said, "Where the Darkmoon shines, all resistance will be wiped out!"
These are the words that Yerevan often uses to motivate everyone when they do hunting assistant training.
On the quiet street, Vince Zhongji's words spread far, far away, and he couldn't help but blush a little.
But this level of self-detonation had little effect, and Vince was surprised to find that Titch was not looking at herself, she was staring at Vins in a daze, her blue eyes flashing with brilliance.
Vince also turned to look behind him, and behind him was Pelican Street, which was next to Avenue of the Brave.
Unlike the empty and lonely Avenue of the Brave, the windows of thousands of homes on Pelican Street are lit up with dim lights.
Vince seemed to feel the light and heat behind those windows......
Huge emotions rushed to the face, frustration, estrangement, and low self-esteem all found an outlet in an instant.
The flesh of the dark, damp woodland, the silence of the shabby and cold bedroom, and the empty and lonely avenue of the brave that drew a long gray line in the city of Caryton.
Vince turned his back to Titch and bit his lower lip, trying to resemble a tree.
"Let's go, you're in my way. Tiki's rustling voice rang in his ears.
Turning his back to Tiki and silent for a long time, Vince said softly, "Don't you want your parents?"
"You, me, Joel, all three of us are orphans who haven't even seen our parents, what are we going to miss our parents?" Rustling, hoarse, Titch's voice overshadowed all emotions.
"When I saw the bodies, I remembered. Vince replied in a calm tone. "Both my parents disappeared in the leyline corridor. I didn't believe it before, I didn't understand why my father had already died in the leyline corridor, and my mother was still there. I always suspect that they just went into hiding for some reason and that they didn't die. ”
"I understand when I see those bloody corpses today, in the Demon Mist Forest and the Leyline Corridor, death is death, and there is no reason to talk about it. Maybe my parents died the same as those people, or maybe worse. ”
"So I thought," Vince paused, took a deep breath, and looked up at the sky.
"If I want to die, I will die in the Demon Mist Forest, and of course, the leyline corridor is better. We can't be together in life, but at least we can be together after death......"
Titch seemed startled by Vince's sudden words, and she thought with a blank look. After a while, she put her right hand on Vince's shoulder, raised her head and looked into Vince's eyes, and said:
"Vins, we are the children of our parents, but that doesn't mean we have to inherit the fate of adventurers. We will surpass our parents and find our own destiny, we will!" she accentuated her voice in the last three words.
"We won't die in the fight with the monsters, and there will be a better life in the future!"
Vince looked at Tichy's blue eyes, and keenly noticed that her gaze was more determined than usual.
"Will there ever be a day?"
Vance peered through Titch and stared at the night at Carrydon.
"Definitely!"
......
After saying goodbye to Titch at the intersection of Cleveland Plaza, Wince made it all the way home. After a busy day, Vince wants to grab a bite to eat, only to find that all the shops and restaurants along the way are closed. But people have to eat properly, so Vince was very shy and very embarrassed to knock on the door of his neighbor Al's house.
Al, who was recovering from a serious illness in his beloved daughter, was in a good mood, and when he saw Vins's hungry appearance, he immediately used his strength to make a big meal for Vins. After dinner, Evan returned the remaining vignetting powder to Vins.
Vince doesn't say anything about the origin of the vignetting powder, but Al can probably guess how he got it. Over the years, Al has treated Wens as his own, and everyone has long been like a family, so the two didn't bother too much, and Al just told Wens to be cautious.
Since Aylmer had just been treated, he had fallen asleep early. When Vince found out, he didn't bother anymore and left Al's house.
Walking out of the warm and happy cabin, standing in the corridor where the cold constantly rises from the stairs under his feet, Vins couldn't help but feel a little gloomy in his heart.
What do you think?
Vince laughed self-deprecatingly, he had just finished comforting Titch, and he was actually in this mood again.
Without hesitation, he opened the door of the house, he had to find something to do.
Back at home, Vins, who was alone, finally relaxed completely. He lit the dim gas lamp, thought for a moment, sat down at the table, and seriously recalled the events of the past two days.
First of all, the most incredible thing is that he has obtained the power of foreknowledge! Although this power is still very weak for the time being, he can only predict the movements of his opponents when he fights with others, and he can't even predict magic, but this power has already helped him to deal with the two-star top claw leopard!
This excites Vins.
The increase in strength in this world is very cruel, and a person's upper limit largely depends on the genetics of their parents. If the parents stop at the four stars, then the offspring will be able to break through the four stars will also be very few.
Vince heard from Al that his father was the top three-star strength when he finally went to the leyline corridor, and his mother was also a three-star strength when he went to the leyline corridor to find his father because of his father's disappearance, so the previous Vince hoped that he could grow up to a four-star warrior.
However, the appearance of this special ability allowed Vince to see a new dawn. Maybe this ability brings more than just a replenishment of strength, and maybe you can also rely on this ability to break through the limitations of the bloodline......
Isn't that what is written in novels?!
Vins's fingers tapped lightly on the dining table, and the power was not all good. Apparently it appeared after that enchantment trip, and Vince thought he had escaped, but now it seems to be completely wishful thinking. This inexplicable force shrouded Vins in the shadow of the church all the time, which made him faintly uneasy.
Thinking back to the terrifying power of the sword in his dream, Vince felt that it was a nightmare that he would not be able to fight for the rest of his life.
But worry is worry, for the current Wins, how to use this power reasonably is obviously the right thing.
Thinking of this, Vince stopped dwelling and stretched out, catching a glimpse of the dark corner powder placed in the corner of the dining table.