Chapter 268: False Speculation
readx;? The pain in the heart was like a hot wire from the broken bone to the chest, and Seth took a few deep breaths, and the "string" connecting his arm to his chest still felt like he had just taken on some burden. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This is the result of the so-called "bone-grafting" technique used by the half-elves known as Mephistopheles to treat his arm injuries. This may have been influenced by the orcs of his homeland, and the Andrari whom Seth had heard talking about at dinner yesterday was such a strange place where orcs and elves lived together, and it was said that the orc shamans and witch doctors of the wasteland relied on crude methods like this to heal broken bones.
Although it is not as good as the divine healing that only devout Radiant believers and donors can get, it is better than just losing an arm. It was only after experiencing it for himself that Seth truly felt that the orc's healing method was indeed not something that everyone could adapt to.
To the hunter's relief, the half-elf's methods were not simply inherited from the orcs, and after the sharp pain that caused Seth to clench his teeth and break out in a cold sweat, the green light between Andre's hands caused the maggot-like pain to quickly subside, and was replaced by a numbness in the palm of the hand that had been unconscious like many ants biting and pinpricks.
"How are you feeling now?" the half-elf asked after the spell.
Seth tried to clench his palm, but found that he couldn't, and after several attempts, his fingers only trembled slightly.
"My whole hand is numb, and I can't move. β
"The paralysis is because your palms are regaining sensation, which means that the broken nerves have basically been reconnected. The Child of the Abyss pinched his chin and made a reassuring inference to the hunter, "If you still can't move in a while, I'll tell me later, I'll go over there first." β
Following the direction pointed by the half-elf, the hunter who sat on the ground in embarrassment noticed that a cave seemed to be hidden in the rock wall behind a bush dozens of paces away.
Seth regained consciousness in his left hand, carefully propping himself up from the ground. The half-elf had returned to him with both hands on the "reason" that had made the hunter misjudge in the face of his enemies
It was two wolf cubs with very different coat colors. The larger fox was close to its adult size, with jet-black fur similar to that of its mother, interspersed with dark gray markings. The smaller one was less than two palms long, and it had very piercing pure white hair.
It was only then that Seth's doubts became clear.
"It stopped me here, didn't want me to get near its lair?"
"Perhaps, who knows?" replied Andre with a nonchalant expression, "this white one is a thank you gift for helping you heal your wounds, it's so thin, you can't take it back anyway." β
Then the Children of the Abyss involuntarily stuffed another black demon wolf cub into the hunter's arms. The wolf cub from Andre's grasp was restlessly tearing at Seth's clothes, but although it was the size of a fox, it was actually just a young wolf that could not leave the den and roam around alone, and its intimidating teeth and claws only made it look stupid.
As if awakened suddenly, the hunter threw the wolf cub to the ground like a hot potato, causing the latter to let out a series of piercing whimpers.
Seth bent down and pulled the cone from the wolf's corpse, but stopped at the words of the Children of the Abyss.
"Are you sure you really want to do this? This is a rare opportunity to tame a monster with your own hands. β
"Its mother killed my wife!!" the hunter snarled at the half-elf, his face red with incomprehensible anger, and the bursting cyan veins on his neck and forehead made him look like a beast that had chosen to devour.
"That's its revenge, you took the villagers and blinded it in one eye. Andrei's voice was calm, "And now, you're back with a vengeance." Well, so it died. β
"He bit my wife's throat in front of my son!!, and you told me to let go of his pussy with a look of carelessness!?" The hunter unconsciously waved the iron cone in his hand in his anger with nowhere to vent, and Seth was angry but not so angry that he would not lose his mind to attack the benefactor who had just healed his wounds.
"Once things rise to the level of hatred, the reasoning usually doesn't work. But I still want to remind you that although it killed your wife, it also spared your defenseless son at that time. β
"That's because he was afraid of the villagers who surrounded him, and chose to flee!He didn't hurt Joshua because I didn't have any scruples to go into the forest to hunt him again!!" Seth's eyes were bloodshot, and he was angry because he couldn't vent his anger, because he knew in his heart that he was the one who caused the trouble and killed his wife.
"Afraid of the villagers who surrounded it?" undisguised contempt overflowed from the smile of the Children of the Abyss, "When it kills your wife in front of those guys, who really dares to step forward to stop it? Who dares to stop it when it leaves!? A bunch of lowly creatures who are as weak as sheep, they only dare to secretly rejoice in their hearts that the target of the demon wolf's revenge is not them! In the final analysis, the so-called keeping your son to make you have some scruples is just a speculation made by people based on the malice hidden in their hearts. β
"What do you mean!?"
The Sons of the Abyss's comments on the villagers shattered Seth's shaky insistence, and the last sentence that made him seem to understand made the hunter feel a chill in his heart.
"I mean, when people encounter something they don't understand, they try to put themselves in the other person's role, and then they try to figure out each other with all kinds of thoughts that are hidden in the deepest part of their hearts. From the most ordinary thoughts to the most extreme malice. β
Observing the hunter's unsettling expression, Andre realized that his explanation might still have too many words that the other party was difficult to adapt to.
"Ahh To put it simply, this is nothing more than a baseless speculation, which only shows the inferiority of human nature itself. β
The anger gradually dissipated, but the doubts and fears crept into the hunter's heart silently, "How can you assume that everyone's inferences are wrong!?
"Up to now, I have not been able to find an argument to support my inference, and to draw what I believe to be the correct and closest to the truth. In fact, I can't be 100% sure that those people's statements are necessarily wrong. β
The half-elf's sharp rhetoric made the hunter almost unable to hold back his sneer, and just when he didn't know what to say with his mouth half-open, the sneer of the children of the abyss gave Seth a bad premonition in his heart.
"But the facts before me tell me that the inferences of those people are mere speculation, and that the answers that have been drawn by imagination contradict what is already happening here at this moment. β
At this moment, the smile on the face of the half-elf seemed to slowly become hideous in the hunter's eyes.
"If it was as smart as people say it was, how could it die at your hands today?"
"If it's as cunning as people say it is, how can you and I track it down to its nest through its bloodstains?"
"As long as it takes us around the territory of other predators, how much more variable will your revenge have?"
"Beasts of the same level do not usually fight to the death, and taking the life of their opponents puts them at risk of injury, which reduces their predatory efficiency, which means starvation and even death. As long as it shows a little retreat and surrender after leading us through, it will only suffer us who look weak and bullied in size. Ah, it did retreat. It ran away in front of you, and you didn't mean to let it go. β
"I don't see a trace of cleverness or cunning in it, it's like a stupid mother who runs home as soon as she gets hurt and wants to care for her children, and lures the enemy to her own home?"
"Do you still think it let Joshua go out of that sinister idea, and is still prepared to kill its children to prevent future trouble?" A bloody iron clamp was thrown to the ground by the Children of the Abyss, "Why don't you pack up what you left behind before you think about what to do?"
The half-elf's words continued to haunt Seth like the whispers of evil elves, and in the end, the hunter, whose mind was blank, did not hear what the other party was saying.
When Seth came to his senses, the Children of the Abyss thrust the black wolf cub into his arms once more. The hunter stared at the restless wolf cub in his arms for a few moments before he remembered that he really should have taken care of the matter in front of him first.
"You go back to the village first, I'm here to guard, this demon wolf has to be rotated by at least a dozen people"
A shadow shrouded the hunter who had just come to his senses, and Seth, who was clenching the long cone in his hand, found that there was a huge wolf head behind his head, and the hunter in a cold sweat was in a panic, and then he saw clearly that it was a half-elf, and the demon wolf that was difficult to lift three or five people on his back like this. The figure reminded Seth of a peasant boy who helped carry the ears of wheat during the harvest season, but the ears of wheat were not huge wolves. The sight of a half-elf boy who didn't look as strong as himself carried a giant ox-like wolf on his back like a father carrying a child, made the hunter feel a little dazed.
Then, Seth suddenly remembered an anecdote that his late father had told him.
Since ancient times, there has been a very special line among the druids, who have honed their bodies and minds in the jungles and wilderness. There is no need for any man-made tools, and many powerful beasts can be defeated by flesh and blood alone. They rely on the power of ** to win the approval of wild creatures and earth goddesses, so as to obtain the mysterious power of incarnating beasts, and they are one of the very few hunters who must not be the target of hunting. It is said that when they are angry, they are as destructive as those fearsome beasts in the depths of the forest, which may only exist in people's stories.
It was only then that the hunter realized that the young man he had just healed and convinced himself was a mysterious druid, a half-elf who was supposed to be high up and could barely match a hunter like himself.
"Sir, you're a psychic?" Seth hesitated to guess.
"Well, I think you know a lot. "The Child of the Abyss, with a giant wolf on his back and a wolf cub in his arms, still has the time to chat, and the Dragon Breath and similar Amplifying Life Spells are far simpler to him than the Dragon Strike technique, a thing as simple as humming a song while driving.
"Actually, I have almost no contact with the psychic, but the other veins are a little bit of a margin?" you don't know what other branches they have" Anyway, there was nothing special on the way back, and what was wrong with chatting and social activities that could pass the time and lighten the mood?
Anyway, the children of the abyss chatted like this
"Don't always look like this, the winner of the revenge should take it easy, in fact, there is nothing wrong with thinking about things in the bad side, at least in my heart I have more or less prepared for the worst, isn't it? What are you looking at me like this? Do I look like the kind of guy who lives in the forest and is innocent and doesn't care about the world? Kindness is a beautiful quality, but kindness is enough to think that other creatures in the world are just like you, then you can only call it stupid. β
"Five hundred years ago, there may have been a lot of such creatures in the Whispering Forest, but since then the elves are no longer as innocent and ignorant as they used to be. In addition to the invasion of the demons, there is also the once-flourishing elven slave trade, and now the son of the abyss, who is the nominal master of Andrari, considers himself a demon, hiding evil thoughts in his heart, and regards them as a precept, but he does not simply resist and reject them, Valhalla's soul academy has a special discipline called criminal psychology, in addition to the common villain logic, we sometimes discuss some imaginary, more special personalities, and there are many investigators and scouts in the elves who are proficient in this theoretical knowledge. Of course, as Andrari's foreign trade opens up, their practical experience will also gain more and more in the process."
Seth spent most of the time answering with "um", "ah", "oh" and other mood particles, some of which he could understand, some of which he half-understood, and most of which he did not understand at all, and the jumbled words and information that poured into the hunter's mind like a tidal wave of confusion that would make a hunting father formally act like a fool with an IQ well below average. The jumble of information and words swept through his mind like a blizzard, only to make it clearer and clearer another question that was hidden in the hunter's mind
"Sir, what do you think it didn't hurt Joshua at the time?"
"Well, it's hard to say, maybe it came to its senses after retaliating and found that it didn't make its eyes any better? Maybe it was just afraid that more and more onlookers would suddenly attack it? Or maybe Joshua's mother's desperate protection of him awakened its motherhood as a she-wolf?"
AndrΓ©'s gaze looked over the dense foliage overhead, as if looking at the rising sun through the layers of branches, "Maybe it's just regret or boredom, maybe even the goddess who silently observes this lush land can't give the right answer to this question." β
The child of the abyss twisted his neck, the grinning wolf's head slid from the top of his head to his shoulder, and the white wolf cub curled up in his arms and pinched his throat and let out a small whimper.
"We can't change what has happened, it's hard to even find out. It seems to me that what kind of change in your thinking has occurred after this experience is the key point that will be closely related to the future of your life and that of your son. β