"What's so good about being trapped in the illusion you've created? It will only make you farther and farther away from the real world, leaving you with nothing to gain and nothing to come into being. As she spoke, she slashed her sword at Maria's head. At the same time, Yang Yichen and Molia slashed at Maria's waist from the left and right.

The mirror blocked the attack of the three as always, and Yang Yichen's gaze fell on the Tang family twins who were hiding in the lavender bushes behind Maria. His fingers moved slightly, and he made a gesture, and then the Tang family twins instantly understood what he meant, and nodded one after another.

"You guys, you really don't know how to be grateful. In that case, I can only imprison you in the abyss forever! There seemed to be anger in Maria's eyes, and she saw her hands open, and a red mirror was summoned.

When the mirror was about to flicker, Tang Yi and Tang Er suddenly threw the gold chain in the direction of the red mirror, tied it to its temples, flipped left and right, and turned the mirror towards Maria.

"What?!"

Before Mary could react, she was enveloped in a red light.

["Daddy, don't, Daddy! ”】

["Well, Maria, Daddy will come back as soon as he goes."] ”】

"Say no more, don't!" Maria crushed to cover her ears, her pupils wide open. Her tears flowed down her eyes one by one, and her body gradually turned into a stone.

Ah, how many years ago was that? Is it ten or fifteen years? No, to be exact, it must have been eighteen years ago.

On March 14, 944 in the Hung Calendar, in the country of Red Sleeves, Mary was 6 years old

"The blue sky is blank and the clouds are drifting, and the grass is shaking in the green earth~"

On the forest path, Maria was carrying a small bamboo basket on her back and humming a nursery rhyme happily. Suddenly, the man leaning under a large tree beckoned weakly to her, she looked left and right, and after making sure that the man's name was indeed herself, she ran to the man's side in confusion.

"Uncle, are you calling me?"

"yes...... Little sister, uncle is injured...... But the uncle was injured...... It makes my uncle feel embarrassed...... Don't want others to know. Can you ...... Can you take your uncle to find a place to hide first...... Wait for your uncle to heal from his injuries...... Leave again......" The man said as he clutched the wound on his abdomen, weakness and intermittent breath.

Seeing his bleeding wound, Maria nodded sensibly, and then said, "Uncle, there is a small firewood house in my backyard, let me take you there." ”

"Thank you, kind girl." The man smiled and touched Maria's head, who smiled and narrowed her eyes into slits.

With Maria's support, the man reluctantly made it to the small firewood house in the backyard of her house, where he hid to recuperate. During the time the man was recuperating, Maria delivered him food every day, and the man would sometimes tell her stories she had never heard before, such as about hunters, about nightcrawlers, about aliens.

These stories depict people and events that Mary had never been exposed to before. It opened the door to a strange world for her, and also planted the seeds of tragedy for what happened to her later life.

On April 4, 944, the sky became very dark due to strong winds and thunderstorms.

The man was lying in the firewood room looking up at the rain outside, this bleak scene suddenly made his mind very messy, and he couldn't help but think of the night five years ago, it was also in this weather, his family was killed by aliens, and his wife, before she died, her eyes widened and her hand kept reaching out in his direction, but he kicked it away. He covered his ears in horror and kept running, running, running, running...... Until you can't run anymore.

"Ahhhhh!!!h He screamed in frustration, panting and his eyes starting to turn red.

"Not me, not me, not me, not me......!!!"

The scar on his arm suddenly began to climb upwards, his muscles began to run wild, and his veins bulged continuously.

"No, don't, don't!! Stop, stop!! ”

The skin on his back began to crack, and like a snake shedding its skin, he pulled his body out of his back bit by bit, throwing the human form to the ground.

"Maria...... Maria...... Right...... No...... Rise. He hid his face and sobbed, and when the last tears passed through the corners of his eyes, he lost consciousness as a human and evolved into a true alien.

"Da, da, da......" There was a sound outside the house that sounded like a giant stepping on the ground.

"Dad, I'm afraid." Mary hid behind her father, clutching at the corner of his coat with a look of fear. Her father smiled and crouched in front of Maria, stroking Maria's head with his hand, "Daddy went out to see, and if there was any beast, Daddy would chase it away with a shotgun." ”

"Daddy, don't, Daddy!" Maria took her father's hand, but her father just smiled and pushed her little hand back.

"Well, Maria, Daddy will be back as soon as he goes." He left these words, picked up the shotgun that had been hung on the wall, opened the door and walked out.

"Daddy, Daddy......" Maria panicked and walked to the door.

She turned the lock with all her might, but it didn't work, and Maria knew in her heart that her father had deliberately locked the door to prevent her from having an accident.

So she brought a chair from the living room, put her foot on top of it, and looked out through the glass probe in the door.

A monster with two horns, red eyes, grayish-brown skin, and a circular scar on his arm stabbed his father in the chest with one hand, poking a large hole in his chest and digging out his heart.

Seeing this scene, Maria suddenly remembered the alien described by the man's mouth, and she lost her balance in a panic and threw herself off the chair with a thud.

The sound drew the alien's gaze, and she ducked under the bed in fear, covering her mouth and nose tremblingly, and weeping silently.

Alien kicked open the door and slowly walked in her direction. It stayed in front of her bed, and for a second it seemed like a lifetime, making her suffer in the painful corridor of time.

Daddy, Daddy, help me, help me......

Mary cried out to her father in her heart, and although her father would never be in her presence again, she could not stop praying to him.

The hem of her skirt peeked out from under the bed, and just as the alien was about to reach for the bed, it saw the small grasshopper that had been placed on the table in front of her bed, which it had made for her the other day.

His red eyes suddenly turned black again, and he rushed out of the gate and into the endless darkness.

Maria slowly let go of her little hand, and after making sure that the alien was really gone, she crawled out from under the bed and walked over to her father crying, calling "Daddy" in the rain.

When the night passed, when the day came, she dug a hole for her father with her little hands, buried him in it, and planted a tombstone.

Later, she found the man's "remains" in the firewood room, and she mistakenly thought that the man was also killed by the alien that night, so she simply dug a tomb for the man with her little hands and placed the grasshopper on the man's tomb.

For the next ten years, she wandered from place to place, searching for the Nightkin only from the stories she remembered the man had told her.

I don't know if the emperor lived up to her painstaking people, or if fate was cruel to her, she finally met a "kind" female nightcrawler by chance. The nightcrawler promised to take her as an apprentice, but the exchange did make her a tool for her wealth.

In this way, she became her tool for four years, and finally escaped from her clutches in the fifth year, and passed the hunter's exam to become an official hunter.

After that, she once again embarked on the path of becoming a Nightcrawler. However, the moment she stood on the altar and saw the elders branding the alien venom symbol that represented the dark night on her hands, she really began to break down, and she couldn't help but go berserk.