Chapter 6: The Companions of the Year

There are no peasants in this world

People are accustomed to asking for nature

All people eat meat

Wild boar, wild lamb, bison

When all of a sudden none of this is there

companion

It's Food - The Living Book

The blind girl woke up without warning, for her eyes were always closed, and unless she rose from the soft earth, it would be difficult for me to tell whether she was lying there a sleeping blind girl or a awake blind girl. All I saw was that at the moment when the white-eyed man got up, the blind girl also got up. Shake off the dirt and rotten leaves on your body after lying down all night.

The walk through the forest is always so hard. The blind girl continued to explore the road ahead by striking the ground with a rattan in the same way as before. But it is inconvenient to have no eyesight, and there are always some stones and branches in the forest, which suddenly appear from unexpected places, adding new injuries to the blind girl whose scars have not faded yesterday.

The speed of the march was suddenly slow, and suddenly fast, and it seemed as if the white-eyed man walking in front of him decided the speed of the march, but I could feel that it was the blind girl who was left behind who really determined the speed of the march. My idea was soon confirmed.

There was only a limit to what the rattan could explore, and the fast pace of the leader was overwhelming for her, a blind man, who stepped on a moss-covered stone and twisted the direction of her feet ninety degrees in an instant. The rattan arm that had been thrown for a long time seemed to have too late to return to its position to protect herself because of weakness, and she fell to the ground with blood coming out of her forehead. The people in front of them continued to stride forward as if nothing had happened.

She wanted to stand up, and although there were a few more abrasions on her arm, she still held on to the ground and tried to stand up, and the farther away the person in front of her was, the more anxious she became. In the end, she still failed and did not get up.

And he, a sturdy guy, relied on his bright eyes, and he had already walked out of a distance of fifty or sixty meters! Is this guy an idiot?

But he finally stopped, and reflexively returned to the blind girl. There are no romantic scenes in Korean dramas where the heroes and heroines look at each other and smile silently, nor do they have blushing faces or caring words in romance films. He straddled the sword bag behind his back across his chest, pulled the blind girl up and threw it on his back, picked her up and left! Like a barbarian! It's not romantic at all!

I don't know where he's going, walking in such a hurry, or maybe he's used to walking like this. Maybe he doesn't know where he's going, and his destination is always so vague "the next settlement." ”

The blind woman crawling on his back wrapped her arms around his neck. He glanced at the wounds on her arms.

"I've always had a feeling that I thought I should tell you." The blind woman buried her head in his ear and whispered.

"There may be two guys following you all the time, but they don't seem to exist. Moreover, I don't feel their malice, it seems to be a kind existence, but I don't know what it is. As she spoke, the blind girl turned her head to us, as if she could see us with her eyes closed.

"Those two guys!" He said it gave us a dismissive look, "something that doesn't exist at all." If you have to die with me, it's a useless thing that can't do anything. ”

"Leave them alone!" In his words, it seems that we are really some very useless "things", although I really can't think of any use for me now.

The blind girl listened to him, nodded, put one hand around his neck, and the other reached to my side, stopping her palm at the place of my chest, and then retracted her hand again.

Walking with a man on his back, he finally coaxed once, and when the sun's rays could shine through the leaves into the forest, he was already sweating, stopped under a large tree, and sat down beside the trunk.

The blind girl swallowed embarrassedly and lowered her head slightly, "I'm sorry." ”

He pretended he hadn't heard anything.

She lowered her head and turned her twisted foot forward, rubbing her feet and knees. Suddenly, she turned her head alertly, and then leaned close to him.

"Somebody is coming towards us, and there's no kindness." As she spoke, one hand groped for the ground, grabbing a stone, this time the size of a fist.

He turned his head to look behind him in alarm. The whole forest was completely silent, and the breath could be heard.

"Come out, I've found you!" The blind girl shouted into a bush a few dozen meters away.

The bushes ignored her.

A fist-sized stone flew out of the blind woman's hand with a "whoosh". I remember the last time she threw a finger-sized stone and shot a rabbit.

The stone flew into the bushes, and immediately there was a "Whoa!" from the bushes. A scream.

"Can't get out!" The blind girl was a little anxious, and a stone larger than the one before appeared in her hand, and in my world, I usually call stones like this kind of stone slabs.

"I'm out! I'm out! "A strong man with only a lump of hair in the middle of his head emerged from the bushes, one eye with a cute eye circle that only a panda can have. Two gloved hands blocked the panda's eyes, hunched his waist, and looked like a very cowardly traitor, approaching step by step. The white-eyed man touched the dagger on the outside of his leg.

"Don't come, stand back!" The blind girl frowned, holding the "brick".

"Hey~ don't be angry," a lump of hair in the middle of the man's head made him look like he was underwhelmed, "It's me!" Hook, it's me, remember me? A clump of hair put down the hand that was blocking his eyes. When the blind girl saw him put his hand down, she raised her hand to slap the "brick" in her hand. The white-eyed man gently blocked her hand, and then stepped in front of the blind woman.

"What are you doing here?" He frowned and looked at a lump of hair, "How did you find me?" ”

"You know, we miss you." A piece of hair wanted to get closer, but when he saw that the blind girl was still holding a "brick" in her hand, he stopped again, "Don't you miss the days when we hunted together?" Everyone wants you to go back! ”

"Everyone? Are they all alive? The white-eyed man looked at him suspiciously, and the blind woman grabbed the corner of his coat and clenched it tightly.

"All alive! All alive! "His grin is really ugly!" And everyone is waiting for you to go back and continue to live the days of cooperative hunting! If we weren't all nomadic beings, maybe we would never be separated."

"You're lying!" The blind girl interrupted him suddenly, raised her hand and was about to slap the "brick" over. A piece of hair immediately blocked his eyes with his hand in panic.

"Why are you wearing gloves on such a hot day?" The white-eyed man looked at him like a clown with his hands in his eyes.

"Huh? You know, I have sick hands and I have to keep warm. A lump of hair continued to grin, "Go back, Hook, everyone misses you, really!"

"You told a lie!" The blind girl threw the "bricks" out, but because she had no strength, she smashed her own feet, although she had no eyes, she could see that she was eager, regardless of the pain, and grabbed the corner of the white-eyed man's clothes even harder, "Don't believe him!" ”

The white-eyed man turned around, squatted down to look at the blind girl, and asked softly, "Tell me, which of his words is false." ”

The blind girl's body trembled, "He didn't tell the truth, not a word!" ”

The white-eyed man stood up and walked towards a pile of hair step by step, "I remember, ten years ago, my parents took me out of your settlement in a panic, they told me not to come out, and then they knocked me out and threw me into a cave. "Do you know where I woke up and found them?" he recalled. ”

A piece of hair listened and swallowed.

"In the pot of your settlement." The white-eyed man's throat swallowed, "Then I saw the people of your settlement rush out." They still have shredded meat stuffed in their mouths! I know whose it is. ”

"I ran as hard as I could, and I hated that I couldn't kill them, I had to run away. From that day on, I wanted to kill all these cannibals. But I was very sad because there were more and more cannibals, and the disaster lasted so long that I could no longer find anyone who did not survive cannibalism. The trembling of his mouth eased a little, "That day, I was so sad that I swore to kill all these people, and that night, I dreamed of a white-eyed gorgon, and she gave me a pair of eyes. Then I became who I am now. ”

"They, those so-called companions are long gone, aren't they?" The white-eyed man suddenly smiled and approached a piece of hair, and laughed a little horrified: "That day, I saw the person who hunted together back then, eating another of his companions, that is, my companions back then. That day, I killed everyone in my old settlement. ”

He smiled more and more hideously, "Hey~ I'm wondering, why are you still alive?" He slammed the dagger against a hairy neck, "You should be honest. ”

A piece of hair's face turned pale, and then lowered his head, "Okay, I'll be honest, they're all dead." ”

The white-eyed man looked at the blind woman, but the blind girl did not react.

He brought the dagger closer to the neck of a piece of hair, "What is the real purpose of your visit?" ”

"Tell you to go back, but it's no longer your former companions, it's the people of the Purple Spider, and they're looking for you. Your abilities have turned their food into unpalatable monsters, and they don't want you to live. ”

"If they don't look for me, I'll look for them too!"

"Hook, I really miss you from the past, you were a vegetarian and you were always helping us catch prey. I had no choice but to do so, and now that most people don't kill each other anymore, I really want to continue to be your friend. "A pile of hairy head buried deeply.

"My name is not Hook, and I don't have a name now." He took the dagger away, "Get out of here, until I change my mind." ”

A lump of hair swallowed, shook his legs, and escaped without looking back into the bushes. But he sat down on the ground all of a sudden, and suddenly two lines of tears hung on his face.

"You're crying." The blind woman leaned over and grabbed the corner of his coat.

"Nope." His voice had obviously changed, "Let's go." ”

"Where?"

"The settlement I used to be in," he said, "you can choose not to follow me." ”

"I'll always follow you!" The blind girl trembled and finally got to her feet, and grabbed him by the arm, "But I don't want you to go there." You know, at night, following the brightest star in the night sky, there is a valley, and there is a hut in the valley. There is a forest there and a lot of animals. There won't be these people there, we can go there. ”

"You're going to follow me all the time?" He didn't seem to hear what the blind girl said.

The blind girl lowered her head in disappointment, then raised it again, "Hmm! ”

He didn't care that the blind girl was already able to walk on her own, and carried her on his back.

Ever since I met him, he had been trekking except to rest, and now, he had begun his trek again, walking briskly in the direction of a pile of hairs escaping