Chapter 15: The Strange Box
Darkness, the darkness of nothingness, the darkness of emptiness, the darkness that deprives everything, the darkness that seems to exhaust all sources of light that cannot illuminate. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Knock knock~
The silence was broken by the faint sound of footsteps, soft, but echoing in every corner of the darkness to the ears of visitors.
The visitor does not know how long he walked in the darkness, the darkness seemed to swallow up the concept of time, the concept of the moment and the eternal became blurred, perhaps for a long time, the footsteps began to be a little harsh, as if to mock the visitor's self-indulgence, on a seemingly endless road, never to any result.
The sound of footsteps seems to tell this truth, but the visitor has no intention of stopping, his steps are like the same minutes and seconds on a clock, slow and steady, and every step is accompanied by a rhythm of wordless expression.
After a while, maybe the next second, maybe an hour, or more, a day, a month, a year...
He saw a glimmer of light flashing in the distance, and in this darkness, this subtle light became the most dazzling existence, obviously there was still a long distance, but it made the visitor involuntarily squint his eyes.
He walked over to the light source and saw a crimson-skinned monster bound in shackles to a square box, its eyes closed and seemingly asleep.
The visitor seemed amused, and he smiled.
"You've had times when you've been so embarrassed." He said this, he felt a sense of familiarity in the monster, as if blood dissolved in the bones, but more strange, strange was the breath of the monster, extreme wildness and violence.
His gaze wandered, and then moved to the box behind the monster, its water chestnut was inserted in the ground, and nine patterns were engraved on six sides, the texture of the pattern was obviously such a simple and simple structure, but it revealed a great power of eternity, making people feel a shock at the level of the mind, as if it was the supreme existence in front of them.
The visitor's eyes were a little dazed, and he unconsciously reached out to touch the pattern on the box, and the next moment, the visitor suddenly felt the surrounding space shake violently, as if it was about to collapse, and suddenly a lot of things appeared.
If the previous moment was a world overwhelmed by endless darkness, then at this moment, it is a fantasy image of overflowing colors. The darkness was dispelled, and it quickly faded away as if it had seen something terrifying.
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Suddenly opened the pupils of his eyes, there were still some suspicious looks, as soon as he woke up, Ye Xi felt that his back was wet with cold sweat, after a sleep, Ye Xi felt that he was in good shape, and even the injuries caused by jumping off the building yesterday had recovered a lot.
What made Ye Xi strange was that there were suddenly more memories in his mind that had never existed before, and countless words such as runes and memories flashed in his mind many times, but Ye Xi did not feel the slightest discomfort, as if he had really read this series of knowledge.
"What the hell?" Ye Xi smiled helplessly.
"Big brother, are you having nightmares?" The tender voice sounded in Ye Xi's ears, and Ye Xi remembered that he was not alone in the room.
He looked at the girl on the table next to him, although her body was not completely healed, her face was still pale and bloodless, at least her life was not in danger, but... Thinking of this, Ye Xi's gaze seemed to sweep over the girl's hands and left foot casually.
The bones of both hands were twisted and the bones of the knee of the right foot were shattered, and these injuries were too fatal for ordinary people.
"It's nothing, it's you, you didn't die, it seems that your life is still quite hard." Ye Xi sighed, maybe it was a pity that the girl didn't die, in this case, it would mean a lot of trouble.
"Hmm~" Whoever just survived the life-and-death situation, when he heard such a sentence, his face would not look good, the girl's face was very strange, and the surprise of the rest of her life after the catastrophe and the helpless crying and laughing that was hit by Ye Xi looked very funny.
"What's your name?" As he spoke, Ye Xi took out the meat pieces he bought from under the table, which was cured meat wrapped in sealing paper, only by doing so could the meat pieces be kept for a much longer period of time, and they could also be carried with them when they went out.
In this era, there is no such thing as cooking, and we should be grateful for food, and only a very small number of surviving old hunters of the old era understand this inheritance that has disappeared into the dust of history.
"Hmm~ My name is Xuanxi, and the big brother can call me Xiaoxi." The girl swallowed her saliva, but she still introduced herself with a serious face, as if in order to divert her attention, she also deliberately said her hobbies, which was very grand.
"Hmmm... My favorite thing is cookies, what I want to do the most is to eat cookies with my dad, my favorite person is my dad... Well, and the big brother, the dream is to hope that I can eat cookies with my dad again. Speaking of this, a look of sadness flashed in Xuan Xi's eyes.
Ye Xi didn't have any accidents, in fact, even if Xuan Xi didn't say it, Ye Xi could vaguely guess what happened to this girl, in the Anding District, such things were not uncommon.
"No biscuits, no meat?" Ye Xi suddenly stopped when he got the piece of meat in his mouth, and threw it to Xuan Xi like garbage. He suddenly remembered that his injuries were almost healed, and naturally there was no need to eat meat.
In fact, the reason why meat is so expensive is not only because of its mouth-watering taste, but also because it can increase the healing power of the meat and the long-term use can increase its own attributes, compared to which these tastes are not worth mentioning.
"I... Is it okay to eat? Meat..." Xuan Xi's pretty face showed that she was at a loss, and tears welled up in her eyes for some reason.
"You can eat if you want, I remember that there is another business between you and me, if you can't get better, this business can't be done, I'll be very upset." Ye Xi waved his hand and said.
"Big brother, you're so good~ Can I be offended and ask for the name of my big brother?"
"Ye Xi, you can call it whatever you want." Ye Xi looked at Xuan Xi's eager expression, and suddenly felt that his head was much bigger.
Even if she eats meat, it is estimated that it will be difficult to recover from the injuries on her hands, after all, this is not an ordinary injury, the bones are broken, if ordinary people do not have a medium-level special medicine, this life will basically be wasted, and this child is really still thrown out of the door.
But I've already spent more than four hundred hunter points, and at this time, wouldn't it be a big loss to throw her out of the door? And she owes me a deal that I'll be very upset about if it doesn't work.
"Big Brother~"
Ye Xi was hesitating when he heard Xuan Xi calling out to him.
"What's wrong, are you feeling unwell?"
"That..." Xuan Xi didn't seem to know how to speak, blushing cheeks, letting the piece of meat in his arms, neither eating nor explaining.
"Oh, then I'll feed you." Ye Xi felt more and more that this girl was very troublesome.
"No need, big brother, I'll just eat cookies, if it's a cookie, I should still be able to hold it." The girl said seriously.
"I don't have biscuits now, just meat, you don't eat them, don't eat them if you don't eat them." Ye Xi didn't have a good airway.
"Hmm~ I eat, can't I eat?" Xuan Xi couldn't understand why Ye Xi suddenly got angry, forced by Ye Xi, Xuan Xi didn't dare to refuse at all, and could only nod uneasily.
"Open your mouth." Ye Xi reached out and tore a small piece of meat from the piece of meat and put it into Xuan Xi's lips that were like white marks, when Ye Xi's fingertips inadvertently touched Xuan Xi's lips, it was as if he was touching the dryness of the sand, and Xuan Xi's body was obviously stiff for a moment.
"How long has it been since you drank water."
"It's only five days." Xuan Xi said seriously.
"Why don't you buy water to drink, water stamps are the cheapest food stamps." Ye Xi rolled her eyes.
"Because I can't get business, after my father died, Xixi has worked very hard, but no matter what I do, I can't get business, everyone doesn't look at me, if it weren't for the two biscuits that my big brother gave me, Xixi might have died." Xuan Xi sobbed with red eyes.
"If I had known this, I shouldn't have given you cookies in the first place, saving you from annoying me until now." Ye Xi didn't say anything, and picked up the kettle on the side by herself.
"I'm sorry, it's me who has caused my big brother." Xuan Xi hurriedly apologized.
"In that case, let's heal the injury quickly, and when you and I finish our business, we will not owe each other." Ye Xi remembered that there seemed to be no quilt at home, so she lowered her head to look at the mouth of the kettle, and then at the girl's cherry-sized lips.
Xuan Xi also seemed to sense Ye Xi's thoughts, and without the slightest fear on his face, he nodded resolutely.
"Come on, big brother."
Ye Xi nodded, didn't say a word, and directly poured the mouth of the kettle into Xuan Xi's mouth.
"Dudu Dudu~Biting to death~"
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