Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Strange Boy
Brunei ran behind the bald head and saw that the bald head was just standing in a daze and was not injured, so he was a little relieved. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
He looked through the gap in his bald and strong body into the room, and he couldn't see it very clearly. But in fact, he didn't need to see it clearly, so he already had a rough idea of the reasons for being bareheaded.
There was no one in the house, no breath of life, but it was very clean. It is even cleaner than Brunei's home, which used to have only tables, chairs and beds, because there was no household waste, no bed covers, no books, no paper and pencils, not even a lamp on the table. There is no trace of anyone's life, but there is no dust accumulated either.
Unconsciously, Brunei himself was able to collect so much information through observation, which was also due to the fact that every time he used observation, the system would guide him and let him see what he wanted to see.
Just such a flash of thought, thinking of the system, Bruneisi's face suddenly became ugly, stopped observing the room, stood still, and asked in his heart: "System, what's going on?"
There was a palpable feeling of pleasure in his heart, and although Brunei rarely had similar experiences, after being with the system for a long time, he clearly understood that this emotion was called schadenfreude.
What's going on?]
"Why did this village, Erta, become like this?"
[Hehe, you ask me, who do I ask?, how would I know about such a thing?]
The system doesn't want to say, maybe, there is only a slight possibility that it is a complete coincidence that the system will let him come to such an evil village. But if the system knows, a new problem arises, and why does it know?
The system used to be able to leave Brunei's body at night - to read a book, but when they were truly one, it couldn't leave Brunei so easily at the same time that Brunei couldn't drive it away.
I don't understand. Ever since he encountered the system, Brunei has been able to figure out fewer and fewer things, and even what he thinks he knows is likely to prove wrong in the end. This made him feel irritable.
But simple anxiety can't solve the problem, Brunei is a very realistic person.
The bald head finally withdrew from that stunned state, but his face was still pale, and he swallowed hard, but he could not suppress the tremor in his words, and then he asked the same question as Brunei: "Is this...... What's going on?"
Brunei is not a system, he does not answer questions with questions, and he does not avoid them with a sarcastic attitude, he goes into the room and carefully observes every detail: "I don't know either. But it looks like the whole village has moved away together. It didn't take long to walk, and there wasn't even any dust on the table. ”
Brunei's calm attitude undoubtedly infected the bald head, and the not-so-terrifying assumption he put forward also freed the bald head from the inexplicable panic that naturally occurred in the face of supernatural events as a supporting role, and he also began to carefully observe the bald heads around him, and soon came up with more information with more experience: "Hmm. There are no signs of fighting, no signs of invasion, no traces of non-human creatures. Indeed, it looks more like an organized mass evacuation. ”
As he spoke, Brunei examined everything and finally regretfully admitted that he couldn't find anything of value, then straightened up and nodded in agreement, "Looks like they've taken everything they can with them." This shows that they have plenty of time to prepare for the evacuation, and they are not in a hurry. ”
In any case, the two of them, who have calmed down, no longer feel how evil they are. It's just that, at this moment, Brunei suddenly asked a new question: "Bald head, have you heard of a precedent for such a whole village to move out?"
The bald head struggled to recall for a while: "...... No, I haven't heard of it. ”
"Neither did I. Brunei's brows furrowed, their investigation did not make a substantial breakthrough, it just changed the evil sect here from one meaning to another, "This thing is very strange. Let's not stay here any longer. ”
After learning that the villagers here were safe, the bald heart was also put down, since Brunei said so, he had no reason to stay here, and nodded in agreement: "Well, then let's go quickly-"
"Are you leaving? Are you going to leave me, are you leaving? We're not friends?"
"What?!" Bruneith slammed into the corner.
"What man!" the bald head turned his head back and put on a fighting posture, and shouted sharply.
I don't know why, the system also exclaimed.
Behind the bald head, that is, outside the door, stood an eccentric teenager. He looked about the same age as Thrall, maybe a little younger, twelve or thirteen. But Brunei doesn't know either, because it seems that this teenager and Brunei are not the type to live in the same world.
First of all, his skin is surprisingly white. And unlike the second-turn mage Kailan who died at the hands of an unknown monster, it was not the kind of dead person with a light gray white, but white, almost transparent, as if his whole person was also glowing with a soft white light in the sunlight. He may have never seen the sun, right? Such a complexion could only be possessed by nobles who had always lived in castles and carriages.
Secondly, the clothes on his body are also enough to prove his extraordinary status. It's not that it's so ornate and complicated, but the material of the white shirt and black trousers is obviously not the same as the rough linen that Brunei and the bald head are wearing at the moment, and they usually wear. So far, the most precious material Brunei has seen is the silk black robe worn by the old mage Sid, who is responsible for reviewing the new generation of mages, to symbolize his identity, and the young man seems to be wearing more beautiful than silk.
On top of that, the teenager even wears shoes. A pair of red leather shoes made of some kind of animal skin sheath, reflecting the sun's rays like jewels, were incomparably dazzling, but they almost reminded Brunei of the horrible red light he had seen long ago, the night when he first saw the system. In contrast, his over-combed blonde hair was barely noticeable.
Moreover, the quirkiness of this teenager is not just his outfit and appearance.
There was a look of confusion and anguish in his turquoise eyes—at least his tightly knit brows and slightly open mouth made it impossible to make such a judgment. The posture of standing was a little strange, the weight of his whole body seemed to be pressed on his right leg, and his thin right leg was obviously a little overwhelmed, still trembling slightly.
His right hand hung down at his side in an odd position, curled up slightly, as if he was injured or on guard for something, while his left hand was halfway raised, as if it were to reach out to Brunei if it was just to look in the direction.
[Observation verification: 7<60, successful.] You notice that the way he stares at you is abnormal. 】
Brunei didn't ask for anything, but the system took care of itself. Although the system will give a seemingly reasonable reason every time, Brunei always feels that sometimes the system requires him to say a certain word in order to carry out the test, and sometimes the system will force the test when he does something on the grounds that he has clicked on a certain skill, and there should be some reason behind this and what rules can be followed. Only now, this is just one of the many questions that Brunei doesn't understand.
The strange boy opened his mouth again, and his eyes were indeed fixed on Brunei, which made Brunei probably understand that he was indeed saying to himself: "We, aren't we, friends?" The boy spoke strangely, with an accent unheard of in Brunei, and his breath was short, and every word he said seemed to drain all the air in his lungs.
The bald head finally noticed the young man's eyes, followed it, and cast a puzzled look at Brunei.
Brunei shook his head, indicating that he didn't know the man. Then he stepped forward, stood beside the bald head, and asked cautiously in a very polite tone, "Excuse me, but you are—what's your name?"
The boy showed an incredible look, opened his mouth wide, and did not speak, so Brunei saw that the boy was not out of breath because he spoke, but that he breathed like this, inhaled sharply for a short time, and then slowly exhaled, and the air he inhaled seemed to barely reach the lower part of his mouth, which made Brunei wonder that the reason why his face was so white was perhaps because of poor breathing.
"Bruneith!Brunei Castro!" the boy suddenly called out Brunei's name in his short, hurried voice, perhaps because he was pushing too hard, or because he was emotional, his face flushed heavily, "You, you don't know me?"
Bruneisi's pupils dilated instantly, the muscles up and down his body tensed, and the bald head on the side had already reached his waist, grabbing the handle of the third machete he had replaced a while ago.
The strange boy took a step forward, and with a strange movement, he put his weight to the left side, and raised his right foot, but as if he had no strength at all, his right foot actually swung to the left of his left foot, and then, with his hand pointed forward, he tripped over himself, exclaimed, threw himself to the ground, and then did not move.
The bald head and Brunei looked at each other, and for a while, the bald head squatted down with concern and turned the young man's body over.
The boy's eyes were still open, but he couldn't see the short breath he had taken before. The bald head was startled and probed his snort, but he felt the calm and long way of breathing like an ordinary person. The bald head shook him twice, screamed twice, and finally patted him on the face, but the boy never responded.
Brunei's eyebrows tightened, and he looked up at his bald head, and shook his head again solemnly: "I don't know him." You can also see that this kid's family background is very unusual, how can I know such a person?"
The bald head nodded in agreement, and then his brows also locked: "Then maybe he is not clear in his mind and his memory is confused." Maybe he's seen your wanted warrant before. It's just that you're still wearing a mask on your face. ”
“...... At that time, Kellan was obviously looking for us around there with a purpose. Unless they use some profound spell on my little man that we can't imagine, it can only be that our position has been betrayed. Considering the situation at the time, the person who betrayed us could only be the adventurer who detoxified us with serum. Brunei reminisced about the past, looking for information that would help her now, "I was wearing a face mask all the time. Such a black cloth may not be as useful as previously thought. ”
"Hmm. The bald head nodded, apparently persuaded by Brunei's reasoning, so he looked at the young man on the ground again and asked, "Then, what should he do?
A cold glint flashed in Brunei's eyes: "Although I'm sorry for him, but, kill him." ”
The bald body trembled visibly, looked at Brunei, frowned, and said, "This is not very good, is it different now than it was back then, we are not cornered. Moreover, this child is also very pitiful. ”
Brunei was stunned, listening to the hint in the bald head's words, he also felt that he was not too eager to kill, I don't know when it began, killing seemed to be the best solution to the problem in his thinking - the system, the blood droplet, that strange thing like flowing blood in the moonlight, really didn't affect his thinking?
[Hey, why is it here again?, I also think this kid is very pitiful, alas—so pitiful...... Haha!]
The system's laughter was a little strange to Brunei, less like the kind of caustic ridicule it had when it was joking, but more like the vicious, schadenfreude laughter that Bruneith would have when he saw his bad luck. This made Brunei feel a little uncomfortable.
“...... Also. But what then? We don't even understand why this kid would come to such a village alone. Brunei said to the bald head, "It's very difficult to communicate with him. Even if we were willing to go to a big city where we might have wanted him and look for his family, we wouldn't know where his family was. ”
The bald head was also stunned, froze there, and said with a little hesitation: "Otherwise, let's hurry up-"
As he spoke, the young man suddenly took a deep breath, sat up, closed his eyes, paused for a moment, opened his eyes and looked at the startled Brunei and the bald head, and said at a completely different speed from just now, and in the standard and completely unaccented Imperial lingua franca, "Brunei, you are dressed like this-oh." Please take me and I'll follow you. ”
After saying this, he returned to the same unconscious sleepwalking state as before, but he stood up and moved with the movement of Brunei and the bald head. This abnormal state of affairs made the bald head feel a little chill behind him, and after the corners of his mouth twitched and he smiled, he had no choice but to make a strange joke: "Anyway, now we only have two options left." ”
"Let him follow us, and, kill him......" Brunei Si read silently, and suddenly asked in his heart, "The system, this person, is it the 'unexpected surprise' you said earlier?"
[No, rather, it was a surprise to me...... Your quest reward is in this village, well, it doesn't matter if you don't explore, it won't be long before he comes looking for you. 】
The wording of the system was also strange, and when he arrived in the village, whatever was strange, Brunei's heart was beating harder and harder, and he began to have a bad premonition, which made him finally make up his mind, and said to the bald head: "Let's not linger here any longer." It's also very troublesome to collect the body after killing this kid, so let him follow if he wants to follow. ”
The bald head was chilled by this series of strange things, and naturally he didn't want to stay here longer, so he nodded, and the two walked out of the village together. However, before he had taken two steps, a shout came from behind him: "Brunei!"
"Again?!" The bald head was so frightened that he was about to say to Brunei that he should not turn back and run away, but he saw the obvious shock and joy on Brunei's face, and he was puzzled.
"Sal?"