Dust mist
On the cold, damp streets, the little boy Silo staggered to the ground full of cinders and puddles.
His pale face was covered in mud, his pale blonde hair was disheveled, and perhaps the only thing that made him look a little angry was his pure purple eyes.
Although, as it is often said, purple is the color of the devil.
Silo had been hungry for days. It used to be his daily trip to the garbage heap in the backyard of a bar or restaurant to look for food, but lately he has been struggling to find even leftovers.
Siloh felt a little top-heavy, and the dim streetlights around him made it difficult for him to even tell the way.
Perhaps it was due to the years of war between the United Kingdom and the Northern Empire.
Every day, men of the Guards in black uniforms came to the doors, carrying a bayonet* and banging on the doors to force people to pay the taxes of the war.
It seems that because of this, Mom and Dad couldn't afford to pay their taxes, so they were taken away by the guards and never came back.
"I'm so hungry, I'm really hungry...... "Siloh leans against the wall, trying to get back to the abandoned subway that he used to call home.
Just then, when he was about to reach the abandoned street at the entrance of the subway, he sensed that something was wrong.
Under the street lamp, the long shadows of the three people hit the pavement, twisted like the devils of hell, and they seemed to be talking to something in a low voice.
Siloh saw the * in one of the shadows' hands, and he immediately pressed his back against the corner of the street.
On weekdays, no one else would come here except for the homeless and beggars, but this time not only did people come, but they also brought guns.
What bad things did Silo feel, who were they, what did they want to do, why...... And with a gun?
Leaning closer, he cautiously poked half of his face out of the wall to observe the situation outside.
"Are you a spy for the Northern Empire?" said a man in a boat-shaped top hat and an officer's uniform, pointing to someone opposite, "You're pretty." ”
Behind him stood a guard, but who were they talking to? Siloh couldn't see clearly, he wanted to take a closer look, sticking his head out of the old dilapidated wall as much as he could.
Those people were completely unaware of what was going on behind them.
Silo took the opportunity to slip behind a tattered cart in the middle of the road, as if he had forgotten his hunger for a while, and an inexplicable nervousness and curiosity surged up in his heart at the same time.
Why, he suddenly felt a strange feeling, the unknown person who was surrounded seemed to have an indescribable sense of familiarity.
It's like ...... A long-lost relative.
"Don't you speak?" the officer took a few steps closer, and the guards behind him raised their guns, "Do you have to be angry, disobedient girl?"
At last I could see the man's face, a young girl who was much older than Silo, who was now wrapped up in a dark gray coat and leaned her back against the glass window of an abandoned shop on the street.
Always silent. But she was afraid, and her black hair trembled like small waves.
"It's a pity that you're from the Northern Empire, Lilia. The officer smiled lightly and turned off the safety of the revolver, "Otherwise, I would rather keep you, and blame you for seeing things you shouldn't see." ”
The girl named "Lilia" suddenly raised her head and faced the muzzle of the gun, and Silo also noticed the girl's right eye for a moment, and he opened his mouth wide and almost screamed in surprise.
- Her eyes are purple! Why......
Xiluo inadvertently touched the broken wheels of the cart, just like this, the cart suddenly fell apart like a collapsed building block, and fell down with a "boom", the wheel parts rolled to the ground, and Silo accidentally fell to the ground!
- Oops!
Silo struggled to his feet from the various parts, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the surprised eyes of the officers and guards.
"How can there be a little imp here?" muttered the officer, his eyes glancing at the black-clad guards beside him, "though I am very reluctant to do this. ”
He winked, and the guard immediately raised the barrel of his gun and aimed the bayonet at Silo.
"Be careful, don't make a sound. The officer said with a sly smile.
- What? These people, want to kill me?! Obviously I just saw it unintentionally, damn it, what should I do, what should I do......
The guard's face was covered in bullet scars, and he might have been a handsome soldier, but now he looked fierce.
Strangely, there seemed to be a hint of hesitation and sympathy in his gaze that was not commensurate with his appearance.
He's just a kid, just a kid who looks like he's eleven or twelve. Although the guards have killed countless people and are accustomed to seeing death, is it really possible to kill an unarmed child with their own hands......?
"Hey, don't you understand what I mean, it's an order!" the officer turned to order, "no one knows." ”
"yes, no one knows!"
The officer was stunned for a moment, and only for a moment to turn around, the girl who had been cornered suddenly grabbed the * in his hand.
The officer suddenly realized, "What are you doing?!"
The purple of Lilia's right eye inexplicably became brighter and clearer, "For the Empire." She punched the officer in the side of the face with her right hand, and the revolver in her hand also misfired at the same time, leaving a deep bullet hole in the ground with a "bang"!
The white doves parked on the roof flew off the roof one after another, and a large area of the cold sky was filled with ridges.
"You damn woman!" the officer's hand holding the revolver suddenly loosened, the punch was not small, and he couldn't help but cover his swollen cheeks in pain, "Guards, guards!"
Lilia didn't allow him to say the next word, quickly grabbed the gun, and without any thought, pulled the trigger of the revolver.
A second gunshot rang out.
Silo and the guards were shocked by the huge changes in a short period of time, and Silo crawled backwards in horror, but felt a pang of soreness and weakness all over his body.
The officer clutched his chest, blood stained his uniform, and he fell on the potholed pavement without saying a word.
"Don't move!" the guards pointed their guns at Lilia, his hands trembling, and Lilia's hands trembling as they both aimed their guns at the other.
Lilia didn't dare to relax at all, she tensed her nerves all the time, as long as she was distracted at all, she could die!
"Don't move!"
Silo watched the two of them stalemate, and for a while he didn't know what to do, whether to flee or ......
If it weren't for that young lady, she might have been killed by the guards, but she also got a chance to fight back because of herself.
It's just a child, there's no need to meddle in this kind of thing. Didn't you run away? That young lady could be regarded as saving him.
Really helpless, Xiluo hugged his head tightly, what should he do?
"Fight back, pick up that axle!" cried Lilia, "or we'll all be killed, fight back!"
Is it okay to fight back......
"Don't do that, why do you have to live or die?" the guards couldn't help but speak, "we don't have to die for some conspirators. Your emperor, my queen, that's their war, not ours. ”
Siloh hesitated, looking at the rusty axles on the ground. Perhaps, he really didn't mean to hurt me, and if he could shoot, he would have shot at that time.
"Don't listen to him, little brother, don't you know what the people of the Guards are like?" Lilia still insisted on her opinion, never putting down the gun in her hand.
The Guards gritted their teeth, and since that was the case, "That's good. Unexpectedly, he dropped his * and raised his hands, "I have laid down my weapon, and I ask you to do the same, miss." ”
"What?!" Lilia didn't expect such a thing to happen, and one of the Kingdom's guards would surrender on his own initiative, "What are your intentions?"
"What the hell are you going to believe me!" the guard got angry, took off his military hat, lifted the golden bangs in front of his forehead, and pointed to his forehead and said, "I am sincere and want to take a step back, if I have other intentions, you can kill me!"
"You ......"
Siloh felt like a helpless bystander, saying that he had nothing to do with things, but if it weren't for him, things wouldn't have changed so much.
"Well, I'm not going to kill you. Lilia relented, "However, you have to cooperate with me, turn your body around, and put your hands behind your back." ”
"It's verbose. The guard muttered and turned around, but the next second, he felt his hands cuffed by something, "What the hell, what are you doing?"
"I'm sorry. Lilia jumped back and bowed to him, "I need you to take me out of the border post, but I'm worried about ......"
"Hey, you're going too far!" the guard yelled in displeasure.
"Quiet! I won't hurt you!" Lilia picked up the *, removed the bayonet, and danced a beautiful sword flower in her hand, "Well, I still like swords to guns." ”
She was about to leave with the guards, but then she remembered Silo, who was sitting on the ground at a loss, "I'm sorry to forget you, little brother." Lilia leaned down and touched Silo's head, smiling and saying, "Thanks to you......"
Lilia's eyes met with Xiluo's purple eyes at this moment, and she subconsciously covered her right eye.
The little boy's eyes, which were also purple, were like the eyes of the supreme demon in hell.
And her eyes are also purple. Once upon a time, Lilia didn't understand why only her eyes were purple, was this some ominous sign?
At that time, the priest in her hometown told her parents that purple eyes were a sign of demonic possession.
It is precisely because of this natural eye color that she is despised and disgusted by people. As a child, no one wanted to communicate with Lilia, and the other girls in the town would always deliberately distance themselves from her.
- Lilia is a cursed witch!
Whenever she thinks of the vicious words of the boys and girls, Lilia clenches her fists unconsciously, feeling angry and wanting to cry.
And the little boy in front of him even has demonic eyes!
"Your name is ...... What's the name?" she asked.
"Silo. The boy replied.
A bitter cold wind mixed with a few discarded leaflets blew through the bleak streets, and the three of them didn't speak, and for some reason, Silo and Lilia's hearts throbbed at almost the same moment.
A dazzling purple bolt of lightning pierced the gloomy clouds, twisting a huge vortex in the vast sea of clouds.
"What's going on?!" Siloh felt the ground seem to start shaking violently, and he stood up, the parts around him "clanging" and vibrating, and the windows of the abandoned houses on both sides "creaked".
Purple thunder fell into the center of the distant city, silencing all sounds.
"Hey, it can't be your Northern Empire's people who are coming to raid it, right?" the guards shouted, followed by a suffocating heat wave, and a black dust mist dozens of meters high rose in the center of the city, and spread outward at an extremely fast speed, swallowing up all the surrounding houses!
"It's that thing!" Lilia said inexplicably, "You really did it!"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" the guards took a few steps back, "what did we do?"
"Let's go!" Lilia took Silo's hand and turned to face the guards, "If you don't want to die, come with me!"
"Wait......"
Silo was led by Lilia to an abandoned subway station not far away, and the guards didn't know what was going on, and they ran after them in a daze.
"It's mentioned in your file. Lilia said, "Hell's call." ”
Siloh inadvertently turned his head, and a giant twisted hand stretched out from the black mist, slowly grasping the towering ancient bell tower on the other side.
- What's that?!
The next moment, the three of them ran into the abandoned subway station together.
The bell tower fell apart at the same moment, and the black dust haze enveloped the entire city in its clutches, then slowly contracted until it was completely annihilated.
Finally, hell descends.