Chapter 20: Flying Shadow
The sun sets, the glow fades, and twilight falls.
In Maitian Village, some villagers who had just returned from the field heard that the bad guy who kidnapped Huahua was locked up in the village chief's house, so they all rushed to the village chief's house with hope.
At this time, a large number of villagers gathered in the small courtyard of the village chief's house and waited.
In the house, the three brothers were staring at George as they nibbled on freshly baked buds, and a kind old woman sat beside the bed where Millie and Mona were lying.
The smell of roasted bud rice filled the room, and Millie opened her lazy eyes and said, "It's so fragrant!" George, I'm hungry, have you eaten? ”
George, who was waiting on the side, couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't expect Millie to wake up and the first thing he said was to eat, it was really amazing, but it was good to wake up.
He glanced at the village elder and grandmother next to him with a calm face, and then said to Millie: "Wait a minute, there is some misunderstanding here, now this old woman has something to ask you, you can explain it to her." ”
Millie scratched her messy hair, sat up and stretched, yawned, and looked around, only to find herself in a strange room, where there were several strangers besides George and Mona.
"Hello grandma."
In fact, seeing Millie's reaction, the village elder and grandmother knew in their hearts that all this was just a misunderstanding, but she still asked Millie: "Hello, little girl, where did you come from with the girl who was still in a coma and Mr. George?" ”
"Where did you come from?" Millie tilted her head and thought for a while and said, "We both set out from the small town of Desaifus, and then we met a fierce beast on the way, and George beat him up, and the fierce beast couldn't beat us up, and the wind blew us all up, and I don't remember anything after that." ”
"Beat the beast?" The village chief's grandmother looked at George with wide eyes and surprise.
The three brothers who were originally gnawing on the roasted bud rice on the side also looked at George in surprise, and they remembered that the first time they met George, wasn't it just a gust of wind blowing, and then George and they fell from the sky. I heard the girl say that this guy can beat the beast...... A layer of cold sweat broke out in the brains of these three brothers.
"It turned out to be a misunderstanding, sorry, Mr. George."
"I'm sorry!" The three brothers also spoke in unison.
George won't take this kind of thing to heart, not to mention that he didn't lose anything, so he waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, just explain the misunderstanding clearly, Mona hasn't woken up yet, can we stay here for one night today?" ”
"No problem, you can stay here tonight, I'll go and explain to everyone, and then cook for you, eat and rest."
"Then you're getting old."
"It's fine." The village elder and grandmother walked out of the door with a smile.
George walked over to Millie and sat down and asked with a concerned face, "Millie, is there anything uncomfortable about you?" ”
Millie shook her head and said with a smile, "There's nothing uncomfortable except being hungry." ”
"You snacker, you know how to eat." As he spoke, George dotingly scraped Millie's little nose with his fingers.
"Hee-hee (♡ ̇) ̇♡)" Millie turned her head to look at Mona, who hadn't woken up yet, and asked George with a worried look on her face, "Why hasn't Mona woken up yet, is she okay?" ”
"You're fine, she should be fine."
George felt that under his triple protection, Millie and Mona should be fine, and they might just faint.
Not long after, Mona also woke up, and just as the village chief's grandmother's meal was also served, the four of them sat down at the table and began to eat, while the three brothers went back to their respective homes to find their own mothers.
The meals are simple but taste good.
George had almost eaten enough, so he asked the village chief, "When I was in Desaifors, there were many cases of missing people there, and I heard the words of those three little brothers before, is there anyone missing in your village?" ”
The village chief's grandmother sighed and said, "Yes, there has been no news from that child for two days. I don't know where it is now. ”
"Is this the case anywhere else around here?" George asked.
"Not far from here, the town of Laidi Harbor said that more than a dozen people have gone missing, and the lord has released the news that these are all done by the partees, so that we can take care of our children recently, but I didn't think about it, this kind of thing still happened in our wheat field village."
"Parting ......" George flashed in his mind the fragment of fighting with the group of black-robed people, "If it is the parting person, why are only these thirteen to eighteen-year-olds missing?" ”
George had seen some scenes in Millie's memories, but the children in those scenes were all very young and did not exist at such an age, if it was just to divert the damage caused by the use of magic, why did he just catch these thirteen and eighteen years old?
…………
In the middle of the night, the moon was covered by black clouds, and the mountains seemed to turn into the shadows of giant beasts, ready to ambush around the village.
Millie and Mona had fallen asleep, and George had fallen asleep in the next room.
Suddenly! A "black figure in the shape of a human" descended from the sky and landed silently in the village, his whole body wrapped in mysterious darkness, moving quickly and silently, as if he were just a shadow.
The dark shadow came to a stop at the window where Millie and Mona were resting, and he looked through the window to see Mona and Millie who were already asleep.
He tapped a finger at the window, which opened imperceptibly with a tiny gap.
The shadow pressed his body against the wall, and in an instant, his body was merged into the wall, and he followed the tiny gap into the house.
In the room, his dark body emerged from the shadows and silently walked to Mona and Millie's side.
The black shadow reached out and threw a small cloud of black and white mist at the two of them, and the mist was instantly inhaled into the noses of Millie and Mona. Millie, who inhaled the mist, wrinkled her little nose, which made the black shadow instantly turn into a shadow and sink into the ground.
“……”
The shadow waited for a while, and when he saw that there was no movement, he resurfaced, and he stretched out his hands and gently picked up Mona.
"Who are you, it's so dark."
Millie looked at the dark shadow's dark face with half-open eyes. Suddenly, she saw Mona who was picked up by the black shadow, and this moment made her get up quickly, her eyes widened and she asked, "Why are you holding Mona?" You're the bad guy! ”
The black shadow never expected that his sleep mist would have no effect, and his pitch-black face opened a large arc-shaped mouth, and spewed a cloud of black smoke and poisonous mist towards Millie. Then he spun around with Mona in his arms and slid away, slamming open the window and slamming into the air. A pair of black wings suddenly stretched out behind his back, flapping his wings in the night sky and flying away.
"Ahem...... Cough! Millie coughed and fanned her little hands, "What is this!" It smells terrible! ”
George pushed the door in, and when he heard something was wrong, he rushed over.
"Millie, are you alright? What about Mona? ”
"Mona has been captured by a lump of black bad guys, go save her!"
When George heard this, he quickly looked out of the smashed window, and he saw a small black shadow flapping its wings in the distance of the night sky.
He quickly pushed open the door and tried to catch up, but then Millie ran over barefoot and pulled his clothes.
"Take Millie with you, Millie doesn't want to be here alone."
"Okay, let's do it together."
It occurred to George that it might not be safe to leave Millie here alone, so Millie should follow him so that he could protect her.
George shook his hand, and a playing card emitting a crimson light flew out, and the playing card stopped and burned in the air, and the flame expanded rapidly, and in an instant, it was dozens of times larger than the original scale.
George took Millie in his arms and leapt towards the flames, which were extinguished by the time he fell. The sacred bird Suzaku spreads its wings to show its shape, and its plumage that changes from blue to black shines in the night sky.
"Azhu! Withdrawing the light and blending into the night, we're going to track down an enemy. ”
At George's command, Suzaku flapped its wings, and its feathers turned into black that absorbed all the light around it, and then rushed towards the place where the black shadow flew away.