Chapter Eighty-Six: Arnold's "Spring"
The crazy leper horse carried Liu Ci all the way and ran rampant on the streets where there was no one, unless Liu Ci killed the leper horse with one palm on the spot, and it couldn't stop for a while!
Liu Ci didn't know what kind of leper Ma Fa was crazy, and suddenly he went crazy.
It's just that her temperament is different from that of ordinary girls, and after staying in the Moloch Mountains for a few years, she has seen a lot of high-level demonic beasts, which has made her more and more emboldened.
Originally, she didn't plan to follow the bell, but the leper horse went crazy and wanted to lead her there, but it was probably impossible to avoid it.
If you can't avoid it, why avoid it again?
Liu Ci tightened the reins and just kept his body firmly on the horse's back.
The bell rang far and near, and there was no real ring along the road, Liu Ci lay on horseback, and it didn't take long for him to run out of the city gate.
Amster City prohibits people from riding horses through the city, and now he is in another "Amster", running happily, Liu Ci's heart was forced to jump down the hole of the stuffy feeling also removed.
Emste is a mountain town, and outside the city is naturally rolling hills.
The hilly road is difficult to walk, and the leper horse automatically slows down. Out of the uninhabited city Liu Ci found that the original here and the outside are not all the same, Emster has entered the autumn, although the temperature is still very high during the day, the grass that grows on the mountain bark has withered yellow.
At this time, Liu Ci saw, the sky was blue as if it had been washed by water, the grass was lush on the surrounding hills, and the nameless wildflowers were dotted among them.
According to the solar terms in the Emster area, it is a scene in April and May at most.
Every year in late spring and early summer, the temperature rises in the Emster area, and the grass is fertile and the water is beautiful, which is the favorite season of the local indigenous herders.
Liu Ci rode a leper horse, followed the sound of bells and rummaged through several hills, and came to an open grassy slope.
With a few sparse black locust trees and a babbling creek, this is already a rare oasis compared to the rest of Amster – the winery that Stull Garland bought doesn't have such a good water source!
A hut was built on the rocky protrusion above the creek, and beside it was a crooked-necked black locust tree, and a large horse was tied to the stump, munching grass with its head down.
Liu Ci immediately turned over from the leper.
Squinting, a string of copper bells hung in the corner of the wooden house, and the wind blew with a pleasant sound, just like she had heard before.
Where's the silver bell on the Knight of Light's mount?
But a string of copper bells, there is no reason to transmit such a long distance.
Liu Ci was thinking about what the owner of the hut had led her to do, but the door of the wooden house was pulled open from the inside, and a big man walked out of it, burly, and when he looked up and saw Liu Ci, both of them were stunned.
"Miss Ci, why are you here?"
His scruffy beard was carefully shaved clean, his hair was combed back and he was dressed in a newly made outfit.
The burly swordsman who cleaned up and dressed up turned out to be quite pleasing to the eye.
After Liu Ci was briefly surprised, he smiled meaningfully:
"Tell me how you live here, Arnold?"
The big man is none other than the missing Arnold.
Hearing Liu Ci ask, this big man who had been a mercenary and an adventurer was a little embarrassed.
"Let's go inside and have a cup of hot water, Miss Ci."
Arnold pushed open the door, and Liu Ci followed in.
The small wooden hut was neat and warm, with a horsewhip hanging behind the door, and a single man's coffin against the wall, covered with wolfskin mattresses, which seemed to be where Arnold slept at night.
In another room, the door was closed and nothing could be seen, and Liu Ci saw that there were two towels, one large and one small, hanging on the wooden shelf, and his face was still invisible, and he was thoughtful.
"Miss Ci, come and have a cup of tea, I'll tell you slowly."
The originally silent swordsman was cleaned up, and when he saw Liu Ci suddenly appear, although he was happy, he was slightly embarrassed.
In unkind words, Arnold's face was full of spring, and Liu Ci couldn't see that there was a ghost.
She lowered her head and took a sip, but she didn't actually touch the tea that Arnold had poured.
Arnold didn't notice this.
"A few months ago, at your behalf, I sent George and Miss Rachel to Amster City, and both of them entered Amster School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I was bored alone in the city, so I stayed at the Moi Tavern, which is the agent point for the Mercenary Association to issue missions in Amster City, and I drank with a group of mercenaries and had a common topic, and my life was quite happy.
It was also a loss that I stayed at Moy's Tavern, and the proprietress Lady Betty, though greedy for money, never told lies for the sake of the gold coins. It's all my own carelessness, and with her guidance, I know that I was being followed. Although George and Miss Rachel both live in the Academy of Magic, and these flies are annoying to follow all day long, I was thinking that two thieves would be casually led out of the city to solve it, but I didn't know that two of the other party's team of people were very powerful, and I didn't notice myself for a while and fell into an ambush.
Seeing that his whereabouts were revealed, the stalkers probably wanted to kill me as well, and we fought a few fights outside the city, when we were seriously wounded, we fled on a rampage, passed out at the water's edge halfway, and woke up in this cabin. ”
Liu Ci sneered in his heart, what a soul eater, not only devouring other people's good memories, but also fabricating a half-truthful and flawless "experience" for Arnold!
If she hadn't seen Arnold's record of receiving the "Library Mission" before, she would have believed Arnold's words.
In his heart, he wanted to slash the Soul Eater into a mess and get angry, but Liu Ci couldn't help but respond:
"Oh, no wonder you didn't send the letter later, it turned out that you were seriously injured, and now your injuries are healed?"
Arnold unconsciously touched his waist, as if there had been some terrible serious injury there. Hearing Liu Ci's question, the burly man straightened his chest:
"It was Arnold who was negligent in letting Miss Tzu come in person. It's just that the enemy is as cunning as a rat, and I haven't killed them for a day, and I don't think it's safe to send letters back to the Rhine. ”
Liu Ci nodded in agreement, "Then who saved you?" I will thank her personally. ”
Arnold's bronzed face revealed a slight red, "It's Zhan ......"
Before he could finish his sentence, a gentle and crisp exclamation comparable to that of a hornbill came from the door, "Why is there an extra leper horse at the door, Arnold, is there a guest coming?" ”
As the female voice exclaimed, the wooden door was pushed open, and a young girl dressed as a herdsman came in like a gust of wind.
Seeing that there was a stranger Liu Ci in the house, the girl smiled heartily.
Arnold stood up, "Miss Tzu, let me introduce you, this is Jenny. She was the one who saved me two months ago. ”
The herdsman girl looked at Liu Ci generously, and said, "You are Miss Ci who Arnold mentioned on her lips?" Miss Ci, you are so good-looking, at first glance, you are the daughter of a big aristocratic family. ”
Liu Ci also stood up, and said with a smile:
"Jenny? Thank you so much for saving Arnold. ”
Liu Ci deliberately emphasized the word "save", and the rough Arnold couldn't hear it, but Jenny heard the spark that was not good at it.
She smiled, turned around and instructed Arnold: "There is a sheep that hurts its foot, Miss Ci is a guest, Arnold, you go and kill the sheep, we will entertain Miss Ci at night." ”
Arnold nodded, anyway, Jenny was back, and the conversation between him and Liu Ci couldn't continue, and he really went out to kill sheep obediently.
When Arnold's back disappeared, Liu Cicai "snapped" and applauded.
"Good skills, play honest people and obey you."
Jenny smiled a little shyly, "Miss Ci, what are you talking about, Jenny doesn't understand." ”
Liu Ci sneered: "Don't understand? Then you should know Edward Wren! ”
Jenny's ruddy cheeks were white, and there was no one left and right, and she probably didn't bother to be polite to Liu Ci, and said with a hideous face:
"Miss Ci, I also know a lot of your secrets, if you keep your mouth shut, you can live a few more days. If you tell Arnold to let him stay, I will be happy and I may send you out. ”
Liu Ci didn't answer her, but sat down, picked his nails, flicked away the dirt that was not visible at all, and said with certainty: "It seems that you like Arnold." ”
Jenny's face turned from red to blue, and then from blue to red, and finally gradually looked like an ordinary person, and she actually sat down with Liu Ci and nodded:
"I like him a lot and want him to stay with me."
If it weren't for the difference between the two camps, Liu Ci would have liked this girl who dared to love and hate.
Or if "Jenny" is still a living person now, Liu Ci will not only not break up the two, but is quite happy that Arnold, who is burdened with a story, married Jenny, the herdsman's daughter.
Isn't the swordsman who wanders the world and has no home, and the lively and cheerful, beautiful herdsman girl, just a natural pair?
But now, one is a big living person, the other is a dark creature, she just has no lower limit, and she can't let Arnold be chased away by a "Eater of Souls", right?
Compared with other people on the mainland who shouted and shouted to kill when they saw dark creatures, Liu Ci from the era of the universe was enlightened enough, but she had also seen many examples of interracial marriages, although in the plane before she crossed over, the humans who intermarried with aliens generally looked the same, and when the person "Jenny" did not change, she looked no different from ordinary people.
There can be no racial discrimination.
Because Liu Ci asked very seriously: "Does Arnold know your identity?" He stayed for a while now, after all, this is not human society, you can coax him for a while, can you fool him for a lifetime? If he wants to leave one day, and you don't agree, won't you kill him and become a Soul Eater together? ”
Liu Aci realized that what she asked was for the sake of one person and one blame, but Jenny was immediately annoyed and angry, and immediately changed her face:
"I've changed my mind, you must die!"
Liu Ci was at a loss, she didn't plan for the two of them with good intentions, and what did she say wrong?
Liu Ci, who was used to speaking outright, suddenly didn't realize that every word she said was poked in Jenny's heart, and the Soul Eater couldn't hold it, and almost broke free from the appearance on the spot and showed her original form.
The atmosphere in the room was tense, and Arnold, who knew nothing, pushed the door in.
"The sheep is killed, Jenny, look at it, what are you going to do?"
Jenny glared at Liu Ci behind Arnold's back, and the two went out together.
Liu Ci was very sad, looking at it like that, the Soul Eater was really interested in Arnold. She is very puzzled by Jenny's aesthetics, the problem is that "interracial marriage" is also too big, just like what kind of spirit ghost seduces a handsome scholar in a Chinese legend, and the ending is never good, why? It's not a mortal physique, and it can't withstand the yin energy of the ghost!
There is no difference between dark death qi and yin qi in Liu Ci's opinion.
Not to mention that Arnold is just a swordsman who has not yet practiced his fighting spirit, even Liu Ci, a foundation-building monk, does not dare to stay with the Soul Eater all day without the protection of the talisman.
Thinking of the talisman, Liu Ci found that in just such a moment, the spiritual power consumption rate in the "town" character had doubled again.
Looking at the dim appearance of the spirit rune, Liu Ci knew that the last "town" character couldn't last long.
But why haven't the people of the Holy See come yet?
Liu Ci especially missed the iceberg face of the careful-eyed priestess at this moment.
She knew that Jenny was polite to her, not because she was "Miss Ci" as Arnold said.
Instead, in the attic before, the Soul Eater tried to suck her memories, but was shocked by the eyebrows Qinglian, and Jenny couldn't touch her for a while, so she didn't tear her face with her, and let herself fall into the scene of being attacked on her back.
The alchemy girl Weiyi said that there was no darkness here, and she would not be hungry and sleepy, so she was willing to stay.
On Jenny's turf, Arnold was clearly treated differently.
Jenny has an unflawed identity background, an orphan girl who lives by herding. It's dark, it's hot and cold, it's the bleating of cows and sheep, Arnold gets cold and hungry, and everything seems real.
The Eater of Souls had made up his mind to lure Arnold to the end.
When the mutton was served, Liu Ci couldn't figure out what the fragrant mutton "raw materials" were, and seeing Arnold eating with a mouth full of oil, she remembered the Chinese folklore she had read in the Liu family library when she was a child, ghosts tricked people into eating, etc., and she didn't dare to get off the fork.
Arnold also warmly beckoned her to eat more, which made Liu Ci very depressed.
Jenny looked at her with a smile on her face, what the Eater of Souls was showing now should be its true face.
Although the oil painting is stained, the silhouette of the person in the painting can still be faintly recognized. With her signature seaweed-like natural curly hair, Jenny was born with a simple beauty of a herdsman's daughter, although not as stunning as her purple eyes, like wildflowers blooming all over the grassland, natural wildness, and another kind of vibrant youth.
When night fell, Liu Ci suddenly came, Arnold seemed very happy, he drank a lot of wine, and was drunk unconscious, Jenny gently washed his face with water, helped him to the couch, and covered him with a warm wolfskin mattress.
Looks like a qualified little wife.
In fact, with Arnold's carelessness, he should have discovered that something was wrong earlier, but there is an old saying in Liu Ci's hometown: love makes people blind.
The big man with the story is now a second fool, and Liu Ci doesn't expect him to sober up by himself.
"Let's go out and talk."
Jenny carefully covered Arnold's mattress, stood up and said to Liu Ci.
Liu Ci nodded.
The Eater of Souls hadn't been rough with her yet, and she wanted to talk about it too.
The wind blew the brass bell in the corner of the house, and Liu Ci and Jenny made it to the edge of the stream under the stone rock.
"As soon as I look at you, I know you're not like them."
After being silent for a long time, Jenny stared at the stream and took the initiative to speak first. The full moon hung high overhead, and Jenny's young face was reflected in the stream, and some long hair slipped from her knees, wetting the ends of her hair.
Liu Ci smiled and didn't answer, in fact, he scolded in his heart, it's not the same fart, the spiritual power in the "town" character is rapidly consumed, and he is afraid that it will spontaneously combust and turn into ashes in less than half an hour.
Even if she was a monk, she was afraid of the yin energy on Jenny's body.
The wooden house in front of me, the creek, the crooked-necked black locust tree, the lamb locked in the sheep house, the moonlight shining from the sky at this time, everything is no different from the Emster Mountains, perfect without flaws.
But the beauty in front of me is made up of the ubiquitous yin energy.
Thinking of the sky-high black fog, she felt unbearable itching all over her body—no one would feel comfortable if they knew that she was soaking in a "big poison jar".
"Oh, what's the difference?"
Jenny stretched out her hand and looked silently in the moonlight.
The hands carried the plump and white skin of a perennial carnivorous herdsman girl, and the five fingers were slender and measured, and the birth was really beautiful.
"It looks like a real person at all, right? But I knew I was already dead...... Died a long time ago...... I never knew what kind of existence I was living like this, and the last time I heard from you, I realized that I had become a Eater of Souls. But I don't think I'm much different from when I was alive. ”
Liu Ci had a headache and devoured the memories of many people, and he didn't know what kind of existence he was?
The magic continent is really full of demons, I just met an alchemy girl who is natural, and the dark creature sitting next to her is also a natural girl?
Thinking that he was sitting side by side with the dark creatures that everyone on the mainland shouted and killed, and the other party made a trend of asking "good sisters to talk to each other", Liu Ci felt so weird in his heart.
"Whoever sees a dark creature will have the first instinct to kill it, and if Arnold knew the truth, it would probably be no exception. But you're different, I don't see killing intent in your eyes. ”
Jenny suddenly looked at Liu Ci and said seriously, "That's why I said, you are different from them." ”
Liu Ci was stunned, everyone in the Magic Continent was still shouting and shouting at the Warcraft to kill, and she had been with a big Warcraft for a few years.
"I've seen Arnold's memories and know that you lived alone in the Moroch Mountains, and maybe that's what sets you apart from the others. I think there must be something else, because I can't read your memory. ”
Liu Ci was silent, endured it, but still didn't hold back:
"You're not looking, you're devouring."
Jenny's eyes widened at her, "I didn't devour their memories!" ”
Liu Ci sneered, "Then what are you doing with them staying here?" ”
Not only Arnold, the alchemy girl Weiyi, the mercenaries who disappeared before, but also several students who "lost their memory" in the Academy of Magic.
Jenny seemed to be hit hard, and Nono said, "It's so dark here, there's no one else, I'm just scared and want someone to accompany me." ”
Jenny spoke pitifully, with a misty glint in her big eyes.
Liu Ci was not moved at all, and replied coldly: "But you are dead, you are now a Soul Eater, you leave the mercenaries and students behind, and the Holy See will trouble you...... Because you're dead, they're still alive! ”
Jenny stood up, looking very excited, as if she wanted to refute Liu Ci's words, when the copper bell in the corner of the room suddenly rang violently.
Jenny's face changed dramatically, and she cast her gaze into the darkness in the distance.
"What's wrong?"
Jenny gritted her teeth: "...... The Holy See, I have found it. ”