Chapter XVI: The Garden and the Tavern
When I was six years old, I suddenly foresaw my own death. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info I saw myself lying on the ground, I don't know where it was, the surrounding scenery was blurry, like in some wasteland, and I had been dead for a long time, and I even felt my stiff body gradually lose all its temperature, and cyan markings appeared on my drooping arms, and he, beside me, lowered his head, his eyes were cold, and a solid darkness grew behind him, like a huge net extending around, at that moment, I heard countless terrifying howls from the underworld. Today, I met him, and with just one glance, I immediately understood that he was the man, the one who killed me
- Avril Avril's diary, "I was born in darkness, but I longed for light"
Noah and Eric walked side by side, the marble pillars painted with white stone on either side looked bright in the sunlight, and the corridor was full of greenery and flowers.
Eric's face was pale, and his eyes were bright and sparkling like his ornate robe embroidered with golden wavy stripes.
The view at the end of the corridor surprised Noah, because it was the same as the back garden that he sneaked into yesterday, rockeries, stone pavilions, green grass, and flowers, he blinked to make sure he was not mistaken, and couldn't help but touch his chin, wondering if Eric also knew about the underground altar.
Eric didn't speak, inducing vomiting to exhaust him, he originally thought that Pol had discovered his little trick, and after thinking about it, he realized that Pol had always looked at Noah unconsciously, fortunately, for some reason Pol did not expose Noah, but it is unknown whether this luck could last.
Noah's expression was a little unnatural, and when he was about to speak, Eric suddenly smiled, but it was obviously not for him, he looked over and found a girl coming out from behind the rockery.
The girl was dressed in black gauze, even her face was covered with black gauze, only revealing a pair of bright eyes, cold as ice in the sun but shining with a charming luster, suddenly like thousands of trees and pear blossoms blooming in her eyes, she saw many scenes in the world at a glance, her snow-white skin loomed under the black veil, and Yin Hong's lips outlined attractive lines.
The girl nodded slightly, in response to Eric, she always likes to be alone, but this frail teenager always seems to be wandering around, this time with a person, that guy doesn't look like a good person, the aura on his body makes her a little disgusted, it reminds her of the cold grave, and the next moment, infinite darkness immediately appears in front of her eyes.
"Who are you?" the voice was soft and clear.
Eric glanced at Noah, saw that he was unresponsive, and reached out to poke him, "Avril is talking to you." There was a slight displeasure in his tone.
Noah saw two forms of energy from her, light and darkness each occupied one side of his body, this was a scene he had never seen before, although the two energy forms did not merge, they maintained a strange balance, he looked at the girl with a look of surprise: "There are actually two energies in your body?"
There was silence under the black veil, and then the nice cold voice sounded again.
"Who the hell are you. ”
"My name is Noah. ”
"Why are you at the Doge's Palace?"
"I'm a friend of Eric..."
"How do you know about me?"
"Feeling..."
"Who is your master?"
"Have you asked enough?" Noah looked impatient, thinking to himself how the girl could talk so much.
"Nope. Avril replied decisively, she stared at Noah, the light on the side of her heart, beating violently like never before, like the sound of a horse's hooves rushing away, and she felt it very clearly.
"One last question, is it okay?" Avril blinked, her expression solemn.
Eric listened to the conversation between the two, his heart was a little sour, Avril had always been very silent, and he had never taken the initiative to talk to him, he had been trying to get closer, hoping that his persistence would impress Avril, but she seemed to prefer to be without him.
"What's in here?" Avril said, gesturing to her chest.
Eric, who has always been calm, was also a little flustered, what did Avril mean, wasn't that her breasts.
"A heart full of light. Noah said slowly.
Avril suddenly had a murderous aura in her eyes, stared at Noah and said coldly: "I won't obey fate, you only let me see the endless darkness, but one day, I will use here." She pointed to her heart and said slowly, "Use the light here to completely erase you." ”
"Hmph. Noah snorted coldly, in the face of this unreasonable girl, he was really too lazy to say a word, he didn't know where he provoked her, he didn't say a few words and said that he wanted to kill him, and scolded in his heart: "This little girl, I really think I can kill if I want to." ”
The more Noah thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and said-for-tat: "As long as you come, I will let you go and never return, and you will always cry pathetically in the dark." ”
Eric breathed a sigh of relief, but he was also embarrassed, caught between the two of them and didn't know what to say, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Noah, aren't you looking for your cousin, let's go out and look for it, maybe we can find it." ”
Noah stiffened his little face and glared at Avril fiercely, but did not speak, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.
Avril snorted, tilted her head, and disappeared into the mouth of the rockery.
"Absolute Protection..."Noah remembered the countless connected stone chambers in the underground canyon, as well as the stone beds with blood stains in the stone chambers, and faintly felt that he had something to do with Avril, but he couldn't grasp the connection that existed, but what did these have to do with him, what conflicts of interest, what battles for power, he didn't care, his only concern was to return to the underworld as soon as possible and regain everything that originally belonged to him, so he silently calculated what he needed to be truly strong, after all, the crystal couldn't rely too much.
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With more and more mercenaries, the tavern business in Merry City is extremely hot.
The crowded tavern was not as noisy as expected, and the mercenaries all sat down, and several people gathered together to tell the stories of these adventures, and laughter came out from time to time.
Laurie sat on the table in the corner, holding a fifteen-centimeter-high wooden cup in his hand, the edges of the wood cracked and blackened, but he didn't care, and gulped down the black-brown rye beer, the foam of which was on his delicate mustache on his upper lip.
This kind of beer tastes like wolf urine, and you need to drink it with a frown, and then enjoy the pleasure of the beer foaming in her stomach, Laurie frowned, forcing herself to quiet down from the slightest hint of nervous excitement.
"Hey, hey, hey, bring me a big glass of rye beer, the biggest one, I'm so thirsty I can drink a bucket now!" With the smashing of the tavern door, a loud voice poured into the ears of the mercenaries, and a dwarf about 1.5 meters tall jumped in with a large double hammer in leather armor, his unkempt beard was still tied with pigtails, and the broken pieces of the tavern wooden door were still on it.
The tavern lady stopped wiping her glass, her face full of astonishment, until the dwarf's loud urging voice remembered, she brought a glass of rye beer a little blankly, and she kept hesitating whether to let the dwarf lose money, she looked at the golden warhammer badge pinned to the dwarf's chest, and finally, said nothing.
The dwarf picked up his glass and poured it down with his head disproportionately in proportion to his stature, his throat gurgling, and a lot of beer flowed down the sides of his beard into his leather armor.
"Ah, that's a pleasure. The dwarf slammed the quilt on the table and wiped his mouth, "One more drink!" and his eyes lit up to see Laurie sitting in the corner.
"Laurie, my friend, long time no see. The dwarf walked towards Laurie, his voice in his throat buzzing like thunder, "God of War, I didn't expect to meet you here." ”
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