Chapter 2 The Monk
Jolt...... Shake...... Rest......
With a faint groan, Jory woke up.
I recall the moment of zuihou before the coma, the road in the dark night, the speeding sedan, colliding, spinning...... Jory was shocked and jumped up!
He looked at his hands for the first time, and then touched his body in shock.
The body is intact, not to mention the wounds and bloodstains, not even the wrinkles of the clothes! Could it be that he was dreaming of being hit by a car?
"Well, yes, sober up quickly."
An indifferent male voice came from behind him, Jory shuddered and turned around suddenly, only to see a man shrouded in a black cloak standing silently not far away, his head bowed, his hood covering his appearance, his face could not be seen clearly, the overall sense of presence was minimal, and there was no vitality. If it weren't for Jory hearing the sound coming from the direction of this person, Jory would hardly notice him, but would have subconsciously ignored him.
As he spoke, the man in the black cloak also lowered his head, and his hoarse voice was lifeless.
It was only then that Jory noticed his situation.
It looked like a forest, but it was a strange black land, and the smell of mold was in the air. The sky was gray, there was not a ray of sunlight in sight, and heavy lead clouds hung in the sky, and the oppressive feeling seemed as if it would fall down at any moment.
The smell that escaped from the surroundings was like the stench of rotting food that had been left for a long time, and Jory covered his nose with a frown. There were several people lying on the ground, some completely unconscious, some with trembling eyelids about to wake up, and Jory looked around, only he was the first to wake up.
If he just woke up from this strange coma, saw the strange surroundings around him, and saw other unconscious people, Jory would only be shocked, but now he was shocked!
In a moment, several people woke up one after another after Jory, and the middle-aged man with his lower shorts and his upper body naked glanced around, and his eyes were locked on Jori. Beside him, the woman who also woke up, wearing a classical robe, looked around the surroundings, and also followed the middle-aged man's gaze to Qiao Li.
The young man with a longbow and quiver on his back, he brushed his pale blonde hair, rubbed his thin ears, stood up from the ground in a daze, patted the dirt on the leather armor, and saw the middle-aged man and the woman in the robe staring at Qiao Li, he also looked at Qiao Li suspiciously, and his beautiful face was full of confusion.
A capable young man in camouflage uniform, as soon as he opened his eyes, a carp rose from the ground, watching the movements around him like a tiger, and when he saw that there was no danger for the time being, he stood up straight. This lean and swarthy young man, on the armband of his left arm in camouflage uniform, proudly represents two Chinese characters: Air Force.
The rest of the young people dressed in casual clothes and jeans, and the countrymen dressed in coarse linen clothes, they are all sober one after another, and the same thing is that they all wake up inexplicably panicked and messy when they wake up. Before anything happened, a girl cried and shouted: "Spare me, I don't dare anymore, don't hurt me......"
A few other people are nothing, there is a woman who is obviously wearing ancient oriental cultural costumes, and in the martial arts dramas that Qiao Li has watched, there are countless people who are dressed like this! There is also the young man in leather armor, pointed ears, and a bow and arrow on his back, this image of Jory is extremely impressive, and he is clearly the ace supporting role in many magic movies - elves!
The swarthy young man, who looked like a soldier, glanced at the situation of the others a few times, and then looked at Jori, whose stiff face narrowed, and suddenly showed an aggressive momentum. Striding towards Jori, the swarthy young man stood more than ten meters away from Jori, but he just looked at him, but did not speak.
The eight people stood in place, looking at each other vigilantly, and no one made a sound, and the atmosphere was eerily silent.
"Welcome...... Lamb...... Now that they've all woken up......"
The voice was coming from behind Jory.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Qiao Li was stunned, he hurriedly dodged away, and suddenly revealed the black cloak figure blocked by himself.
"Very good...... "The man in the black cloak lowered his head and said in a hoarse, slow voice, "Welcome to Castlevania, the dead." I am a monk, your guide. β
In a deep voice, he seemed to want to express the smile of his friend, but when everyone present heard it, there was a ghostly chill in their hearts.
"Your old life is dead, and the new life is in the hands of Castlevania's rules, if you want to continue to live and prove the value of your existence." The man in the black cloak stretched out an arm, and the arm pointed out a path straight: "Meet and greet gift, a survival game for you, life and death." Ten kilometers away is the border of Castlevania, and the one-day time limit, those who reach the end alive are eligible to continue to live. β
"Now, the game begins."
Slowly retracting his arms, the black-cloaked man lowered his head and took stiff steps, walking in the opposite direction step by step.
As soon as he moved, among the eight people here, a middle-aged man wearing only a pair of shorts suddenly burst out and frantically walked away in the direction pointed out by the man in the black cloak. Seeing this person move, the classical woman with curved eyebrows thought for a moment and followed along. Seeing that two people took the lead, and the rest of the people, you look at me, I look at you, and three more people chased after them.
Of the rest, only Jory, the young man in casual clothes and jeans, and the schoolgirl did not leave immediately. But on second thought, some of the people who left might be able to ask the questions they wanted to know about them, and the two who had not yet left were obviously unfamiliar with the surroundings, so Jory also chased after the large group, leaving only the schoolgirls and young people who had not left.
"Hey! Wait a minuteβ"
Sneering at Qiao Li's back, the young man with his hands in his pockets shouted to the man in the black cloak, he walked towards the man in black, crooked his neck and squinted his eyes, his face was not good, he chased after him and asked slowly, "You guys have to tie up Lao Tzu in a daze?" Hehe, no need to answer, I already know the answer...... But, do you know who my dad is? After saying that, the young man seemed to be waiting for the other party's reaction when he heard it, and before the other party could do anything, he himself showed a hint of pride.
The man in black didn't seem to hear the young man's shout, and still walked forward unhurriedly.
"I'm talking to you, you're deaf?" The young man's face changed, and he chased after him angrily and grabbed the shoulder of the man in black, and a trace of annoyance appeared between his reserved and proud eyebrows.
Pulled by the young man, the man in black stopped moving forward, and for the first time he raised his head, a hoarse voice coming from inside his hood.
"The first one, out."
I didn't see any movement of the man in black, and the hand of the young man who grabbed the shoulder of the man in black suddenly evaporated a puff of green smoke! The sudden shock didn't have time for the young man to stop, and his palms were corroded by some kind of gas in an instant! The flesh of the fingertips fell off the man's cloak and slid down his cloak, revealing five phalanges dripping black blood.
The terrifying corrosive power quickly broke through the limitations of his palm and spread all over his body!
"Ah!!h
The terrible screams pierced the dead forest, but then came to an abrupt end.
In the opposite direction here, six people a few hundred meters away heard screams from behind at the same time, and the middle-aged man at the front ran faster, as if something terrifying was chasing him. The three of them stopped running, stopped in unison to look behind them, and then gathered together.
Jory followed the two men in front of him, looked at the young man with thin ears, and then at the young man in camouflage uniform.
"My name is Jory and I'm a teller...... It used to be, do you know what this place is? Jory broke the silence with some embarrassment.
"Just now I was on the battlefield in Vietnam, and suddenly I fainted, and now I ...... I don't know about this place either. The young man in camouflage looked at the strange boy a few more times before he said, "Call me Yang Tianli, soldier." β
"I'm Lear." After the young man introduced himself, he looked at the two of them vigilantly, hesitated, and said, "Although I don't know where this is, I can feel the dirty undead breath." β
"You ......"
Staring at the boy's pointy, thin ears, Jory's eyelids couldn't stop jumping.
"Ranger of the Eternal Horde, haven't you heard of the Elven Ranger, why are you looking at me like that?" Under the locked gaze of Jory and the soldiers, the young man's two pointed ears trembled, and he frowned and asked uncomfortably: "On the contrary, it is the two of you, are you human beings from the Orlan Empire, I have never seen a human dressed as you......" There was instinctive reserve and a trace of pride in the young man's puzzled eyes.
The soldier next to him didn't react in any way, but Jory's eyes opened for a moment.
In the eerie forest, there is an unconcealable sense of depression, for the sake of safety, the three of them walked together, on the way, Jory nervously glanced at the ear of the elf boy from time to time, and even once he couldn't help but step forward and squeeze it hard, and the feeling was confirmed, the ear was actually the original!
What are you kidding, a different shijie elf clan crossed in front of him, in the era of the prevailing wind of online literature, isn't the elf boy's crossing anti-guest-based, even if it crosses, it should be the turn of Jory, a modern person, to cross.
What the hell is Castlevania? I had heard the man in black mention this word before, and at that time Jory didn't have time to ask, among several people, it seemed that the middle-aged man in shorts knew something, and when the man in black said that the game had started, Jory remembered that the middle-aged man's reaction was particularly violent, and he ran away with fear.
Restless and dazed, the three of them walked along the sparsely wooded path for a short time when they saw a white figure lying on the ground.
It was strange to see vegetation alive in the dark and barren land, and Jory was curious to see the soil, which was hard, rancid, and pitch black, and it was hard to imagine how this soil could provide nourishment for plants.
And in this dark land, the classical woman in the white robe is extremely eye-catching, and it is difficult to find it. The three of Qiao Li looked at the woman who was sitting on the ground gasping for breath in exhaustion, unlike the other two, he thought strangely and silently, could this woman be crossed by the ancient Chinese people?
Luckily, Jory guessed it, and he had already begun to suspect that it was possible. Jory was not the only one who felt weird, after discovering the classical woman, the four of them gathered together, and in order to resolve the doubts in their hearts with each other, they introduced their country and time one after another.
Once again, Jory introduced himself: "I, Jory, an ordinary white-collar worker in the Federal Republic...... Now that I'm unemployed, I don't have much ability, hehe. Remembering his experience of being abandoned by the unspoken rules of the company, Jory laughed to himself.
Soldier Yang Tianli said with a serious face: "Yang Tianli, from the People's Republic of China, a few minutes ago I was still in the command headquarters of the Vietnam battlefield to participate in the battle, specializing in electronic equipment debugging and communication signal interception, but I think my knowledge is useless in this kind of forest." β
Hearing Yang Tianli introduce himself, Qiao Li was stunned, and blurted out without thinking: "The Chinese people...... Grandma's, you can't be talking about the country of the old era more than a hundred years ago, right? β
...... more than 100 years ago
The elves of the different shijie clan, civilians of the Federal Republic, soldiers of a certain country in the old era more than a hundred years ago, this is a collective crossing?
Seeing the astonishment of Qiao Li and the soldier looking at each other, the elf boy was ruthless and said: "The steppe elves in the northwest of the Orlan continent, okay, my real name is Arildos, and the dragon language translates to ...... Forget it, you might as well call me Lear. β
Dragons, steppe elves? At this moment, there are only two words in Jory's heart to describe his mood: shit!
This is not over, in Qiao Li's direct gaze, a woman dressed as a martial artist spoke coldly.
"I am a disciple of the Heavy Sword Pavilion of the Eight Great Sects of the Central Plains, Wang Yanyu." The classical robe woman frowned slightly, her cold eyes stared at the barren ground, and said gloomily: "Castlevania, hum...... Maybe I know what's going on. β
"That self-proclaimed 'monk' in the Demon Dao, he threw us here just to see our despair and painful ugliness, I, Wang Yanyu, will never compromise!"