The fire festival was very quiet, and there seemed to be no one else except for the fireproof woman who stood like a statue.

There was no depressed discouraged knight, no blacksmith banging on felt, no old woman sitting in a chair in the aisle sighing slightly.

In such a gloomy and dead environment, the girl with dark blonde hair was a rare touch.

Zhang Lin quietly walked to the side of the fire prevention girl and looked at the other party carefully.

I don't know if the world chooses a fireproof woman with strict requirements for appearance, the half-exposed face of the girl in front of her deserves the word beauty, and the upper half of her face is wearing a delicate silver metal eye mask with complicated ornamentation, which is reflected by the fire on the spiral sword.

The long, dark blonde hair was a little unkempt, one side hanging around the neck and the rest down to the waist.

The elaborate cut gray-black dress tightly wrapped the girl's body, the gold pattern on the chest was delicate and slightly low-key, and she had a reassuring temperament, and a simple shawl was worn over the shoulders to cover most of her arms, which appropriately modified the overly slender characteristics of her outfit.

"Has anyone come?"

Perhaps it was Zhang Lin who unscrupulously made the girl in front of him perceive something, and the light voice broke the silence in the sacrificial hall.

"Hello." Zhang Lin hesitated for a while, and finally took the initiative to prove his existence.

"I'm sorry, I can't see you, and your footsteps are too soft." After discovering that there was really someone, the fire prevention girl's voice became a little cramped, her hands were clasped together, and she bowed slightly towards Zhang Lin, "May I ask if you are the knight of Lothric?" ”

Zhang Lin scratched his hair a little embarrassed, and the words of the fire prevention girl made him a little embarrassed by his behavior of deliberately eliminating the footsteps and coming to the other party, and then explained the purpose of this trip to the other party.

"I see, thank you for bringing the news, Lord Knight."

As soon as the previous embarrassment passed, Zhang Lin suddenly thought of making some strange moves in front of the fire prevention girl, but the girl covered her lips and turned her head away with a smile.

"My lord, I can't see it, but you must have done something strange, right? Please be serious, okay? ”

It turned out that a little sound could make this girl who had lost her light judge his behavior, and Zhang Lin quickly put away his joking mentality, "Don't you want to see the world again?" ”

"In order to protect this flame, there is a need to make sacrifices, it is my duty, and it is also my luck, all this is a trivial test." Although the firefighter is an understatement, taking on this duty cannot be summed up by a simple sacrifice, as can be seen from the dried blood and some scars on the fingers that are exposed under the sleeves.

I remember that one of the game's prepared firefighters went through the ordeal of being alone and blind through a passage with a large number of devouring giant rats.

The fireproof girl walked down the stairs to the door of the sacrificial ground, Zhang Lin looked at the lonely back of the other party, and followed to support the other party.

When Zhang Lin's hand touched the other party's shoulder, the girl was a little surprised and wanted to avoid it, but then it turned into words of gratitude on her lips.

"Thank you, Lord Knight, I can walk on my own, when I decide to embark on this path, the world will gradually dim before my eyes," the hem of the fireproof girl's skirt dragged on the ground, and Zhang Lin had to pay attention so that he would not step on it, "but it is the flames that ignite in the darkness that are particularly precious, isn't it?" ”

As she passed the tombstones beside the stairs, the Fire Lady slowed down her pace and gently stroked the tombstones with one hand, perhaps she had relied on them as signposts in the first place.

"There are many heroes who have devoted themselves to the Initial Furnace to the Flame of Origin, and many of them are not as capable of burning for centuries as the mighty Salary Kings, but the ashes left behind by their burning will be buried in the Ashes Cemetery, they are all heroes who have given everything to this world."

Zhang Lin looked at the tombstones on the side of the road, just from the number, I don't know how many people put their souls into the furnace as firewood in order to continue the flame, and finally left only the last trace of the world.

Time has worn away the handwriting engraved on their tombstones, and they, like the unsung heroes of the past, have not even left a name, and most of them have not even had a chance to pull up and burn them again.

"At such a great cost, have you ever thought that even if the fire goes out, it doesn't mean that hope has been lost?"

"Knight, you have a very special idea, but I have also read many stories recorded in the holy scriptures, such as the Longdor who has fallen into darkness, you may not have felt the fear in the darkness, but as a fireproof woman, I know the unknown horror in the darkness, so why don't you try to protect the only remaining light?" Zhang Lin's ordinary words were not enough to make the fire prevention girl change her opinion.

"Family, love, friendship, maybe these are the things that those heroes feel when they walk on the road of honing themselves, only if the flame continues to burn, these can be maintained, compared to them, I am just a fireproof woman who doesn't even have a name and pays a negligible price for this world. Knight, maybe you'll become a hero like that when you realize this, you'll be like that, right? ”

The sunlight shone through the cheeks of the fireproof girl, outlining a golden edge, and that smile was just like the hope she was expecting, but Zhang Lin felt a little dazzling.

"Maybe it's just a reincarnation ......" Zhang Lin whispered, and the fireproof girl was stunned for a moment when she heard it, perhaps thinking about the meaning of the word, and there was still a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Standing on the last step of the stairs, the girl bent slightly to Zhang Lin again, "May you be accompanied by flames on your journey." ”

With that, she pushed open the iron fence under the tower.

"If you want to see the world again, maybe I can help you ......," Zhang Lin called out to the other party.

Holding on to the rusty fence, the firefighter turned her head, "Thank you for your kindness, if you have time, please help bring some firewood for the flame on the spiral sword in the sacrificial field, this will be the greatest help to me." Then she stepped into the tower.

Well, it seems that this fireproof girl is really persistent.

Zhang Lin was not in a hurry to leave, but returned to the fire sacrifice ground and sat down.

After a while, like a bell striking on the soul, it resounded under the pale sky of this world, and spread throughout the world, Zhang Lin held back the doubts in his heart and waited for the other party to return.

After a while, she saw the firefighter dragging a dry corpse in a gray robe back to the sacrificial ground, it was an immortal not far from the living corpse, and the firefighter seemed to be used to it, and pulled the undead who had no strength to react to the spiral sword.

The undead's hand was placed on the spiral sword, and the lines on the spiral sword suddenly brightened, and a little spark appeared on the undead body, like a lit firewood.

Soon the undead was burned to the ground, turning into a cloud of ash that replenished the brazier under the spiral sword.

After doing all this, the firefighter bowed her head to the spiral sword, or the undead, and prayed.

"Why ring the bell now? Is it time to wake up the Salary King? ”

"My lord, it turns out that you haven't left yet," the fire girl was a little surprised when she heard Zhang Lin's voice, and then said to him, "This is not a bell to wake up the Salary King, but a call to inform heroes from all over the world to go here, of course, if things are still irreparable, I will ring its ...... again"