- How nice it would be if you didn't have these eyes.

Silo lay quietly on the deck alone, looking at the blue sky overhead, and the sunset slanting against the hull of the Dongshan Building.

Probably having already set off, those fake Chu people in Hanfu ran from the cabin to the deck, the sailors raised the sails, and some climbed the ladder of the mast to the lookout platform, looking around with monoculars.

"Hurry up, hurry up, it's time to set sail!" A certain first mate with Fusang hair in a bun but wearing a Hanfu shouted the standard Fusang dialect, and walked in front of everyone with a ring head knife that was not very finely made, and a dozing sailor was kicked awake by him, "Idiot, it's time to get up, you are lying here like a dead pig!"

Everyone moved, and Siloh felt the hull of the ship move slightly, and the wheels on both sides of the hull like big waterwheels slowly began to turn, and the spinning pulp stirred up bursts of water and made a dull sound.

The whistle emitted a large amount of steam, and the spine beast on the eaves of the building seemed to come to life in the steam, showing its teeth and claws, and soaring through the clouds.

"And you, what's the matter with lying here?!" The first mate unceremoniously slapped Xilo's face with the back of his knife, interrupting Xilo's brief fantasy of freedom, "I've heard Kuroki-sama say that you're a demon, right, little ghost? ”

"I'm not a demon. Silo raised his head slightly to look at him, but still out of fear, he subconsciously crawled back a little, but there was a trace of stubbornness on his face.

"You don't count. The first mate walked towards Silo and grabbed him by the collar, a strong smell of alcohol erupted from his mouth, and Silo saw that his face was as red as a monkey's ass, "Your eyes prove that you are a demon." Don't force me to cut your leg with a knife, Lao Tzu hates demons the most in his life. ”

"I'm ......" Siloh felt the terrifying force, and the bruised tendons on the first mate's thick arm contracted and throbbed like a wriggling earthworm. Siloh swallowed his words alive.

"I'll tell you, little devil!" the first mate suddenly pulled Silo up and pressed him hard against the mast, and Silo's back suffered this sudden blow, and the pain almost made him cry, but he held back and didn't cry.

"I used to have a wife, and she was a devout believer. Her father, who was my father-in-law, was executed as an old samurai when the Emperor of God changed the law, and my wife cried so hard that she washed her face with tears every day. Well, do you know what happened next?"

One of the first mate's hands pinched Silo's chin, and Silo looked at him with trepidation, "Later, my wife said that there was a mountain god who could revive her father and asked her son to go to the abandoned shrine in the mountain forest. Hmph, as a result, my father-in-law came back to life, but my wife never came back, until later in Shimajokyo I heard that she was killed by the onmyoji, because she was possessed by demons, lost her soul, and killed people everywhere. ”

The first mate let go of his hand, his face was almost burning, and it was frighteningly red, "But in the end, my father-in-law is still dead, and the devil will only cheat everywhere and harm people's lives!"

"So, little devil, my words today are not to your body, but to the soul of that demon of yours. He slammed his knife into the deck of the ship, "Everybody hates demons, and no one here will like you." ”

The blade of the knife "buzzed" and trembled, and Silo leaned on the mast in disbelief, and the first mate burped, went back to get a bottle of rum, and continued to urge the others.

He really wanted to prove that he wasn't a demon, why didn't anyone believe him? Siloh asked himself every day, why did he exist in this world? He was so sad that he wanted to cry, if he was destined to suffer a lot in his birth, why did he exist? His existence only brought trouble, and it would affect the people around him......

Siloh hugged himself in despair and slowly walked to the cabin, where everyone on board looked at him with disgust and wariness, as if there was no place for him in the world.

He used to have a warm home, but war and hunger destroyed everything, and Silo was once again alone, the demon child who didn't even know who his parents were.

"If I can control my own destiny, if one day I can also be liked by everyone, how great ......"

Silo stumbled back into his berth, curled up in the corner of the bed, will Uncle Andre and Sister Lilia be okay? Will they, will they come to his rescue......

The sun was setting in the west, the evening waves were sleeping with the stars and the moon, and Xiluo silently closed his eyes in the shadows and shed tears.

The ship was jolting like a huge cradle, the sea breeze outside the window was blowing into the cabin, and the Fuso people were playing harmony on the deck, and the sound of flutes and harps echoed in their ears.

- Do you want to change your fate?

A strange sound rang out in the cabin, and Silo snapped open his eyes. Who was it?! In the darkness he did not see anyone existing.

"Don't look, I'm there for you. ”

Silo just turned his head, and a strange man sat down beside him for some moment, and Silo retreated to the wall in fright, looking at him warily.

"Who are you?"

"Maybe you don't believe it. The strange man snapped his fingers, and the lights in the cabin suddenly lit up, "I'm you." He replied in a deep voice.

In the dim light, a man as pale as a dead man sat beside him, smiling, his long silver hair pouring down the back of his head like running water, and looking at Xiluo's purple eyes with a bewitching aura.

Incredibly, the man had a pair of horns on his head, but they weren't symmetrical, with the left horn snapping off from the middle and the right horn extending outward, looking like a ...... Demon?!

"Are you...... How did you get here?"

"I've always been there. The silver-haired man said, "It was you who called me and I appeared." ”

Siloh shook his head puzzled, "It's impossible, I don't know you." ”

"Don't you want to be in control of your own destiny?" the silver-haired man ignored what Siloh said, "I will grant your wish, but it requires you to make a condition. There was a deep temptation in his tone, and there was an irresistible feeling, "If you want to, those people will be sent to the Netherworld Purgatory, and they will never recover." Whoever dares to disobey your will will die. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Siloh felt an indescribable fear, the air around him seemed to drop dramatically, and his heart was as uneasy as the shaking hull of a ship. It's an illusion, it must be an illusion, unless, it's dead.

"It's not an illusion. The silver man sneered and picked up a dinner knife on the bedside table, "If you don't believe me, you can try it." Siloh saw his hand holding the dinner knife trembling slightly, is it, wait, is he going to!

"Yes. The silver-haired man raised his head and suddenly stabbed into Silo's heart!

A heart-piercing pain stirred his whole body like an electric current, and Silo didn't even have time to scream, the terrible pain almost made him faint, and everything in his mind seemed to spin and collapse!

"This pain must make you believe it's not a hallucination, right?"

Xiluo clutched the sheets tightly with both hands, the blood in his chest was slowly flowing, and the next moment, the silver-haired man pulled out the dinner knife directly, Xiluo snorted, his vision began to blur, gradually becoming gray and gloomy, and his heavy eyelids finally closed.

- How can this be, are you going to die, it's just so confusing......

The ruptured wound seemed to have a strange itch, and the pain was quietly disappearing, only after a short time, Xiluo opened his eyes again in a daze, he subconsciously touched the wound, but found that he seemed to have never been stabbed by a knife, and he couldn't even feel the scar.

"You have an immortal body, and you can't die unless it's a Mithril weapon. Silver-haired* and pacing with his hands behind his back, he walked like a young king, calm and majestic, "This is only a small ability I have given you." If you can lend me your body, no one in this world will dare to bully you. Like today's first mate, you only need to move your fingers to send him to hell. ”

"No, my dad told me...... He told me that I must not have evil thoughts about people. Silo began to feel a little nervous, and he was afraid that the strange man would become angry and stab himself with a knife.

"What an obedient little ghost, who speaks as if he has parents, no wonder he is so miserably bullied. There was a hint of hatred in Lucifer's tone, "Little ghost, you'd better think clearly, I'm the only one in this world who can help you rebel against fate, not Sibelius, not Andrei, Lilia or anyone else, just me!"

"Nope. The ship shook even more, and Silo felt a little weak, and became more and more lightheaded, and the silver-haired weirdo's body began to disintegrate into pitch-black dust, "No, that's ridiculous! Who the hell are you?"

"Me?" his eyes began to narrow into the shape of blades, and black dust spread to his face, "If I have to, everyone else will call me, Lucifer." ”

Lilia and Andre return to the nearest city. Hearing that something big had happened in the town of West Rail, and that many people had died during the night, they took a detour to the town of Gray Moon on the border of Elbe.

During Lilia's last conversation with Raven, she didn't get any valuable information. The crow didn't say anything else the whole time.

Lilia decides to take the mechanical crow with her, and in the dark, she feels that the crow still hides many secrets, and perhaps the raven's words will be the key to understanding the cause of all the events in Elbe.

"So, you mean, we can't find Silo, do you?" Andre looked like a soldier who had lost a battle, his right hand was bandaged, his head hung down, and there was no anger in his eyes, "As a royal guard, I was actually cleaned up by a Fuso clown......" His wound was still aching, and his heart was still very uncomfortable, "It's all my fault." ”

Lilia sighed softly and stuffed a piece of brown bread into Andrei's hand, "I can't find it for the time being." By the way, the Fuso exorcist you are talking about, is he looking for some sarcophagus?"

"Like. Andre thought, "That exorcist is called Kuroki Dust, this bastard, why did you take Silo?"

"Kuroki dust?" Lilia seemed to remember something, and quickly flipped through her notebook, as if she had seen the name of Fuso.

Sure enough, in the column of foreign advisers in the first plan, Kuroki Takechen's name is written, and the job marked on his right is "to open the coffin"?

"I can't see it, it's still a tomb robber. Lilia waved her hand and mocked, "If we want to bring Silo to Fuso, then we need to report it to the International Tribunal." ”

The white townhouses of Grey Moon appeared on the withered yellow fields, the rolling hills in the distance surrounded the small town, the red maple trees beside the stream formed a small forest, and the town's farmers and peasant women were busy doing the final harvest of autumn.

"Have you arrived?" Andre smelled a faint smell of wheat, the chaos of autumn in the distance swaying in the wind, and the wind of Nagano whispering in the air, Andre had not felt this pastoral tranquility for a long time, "When I was a child, I used to cut wheat with my father in the wheat fields outside the city of Elbe, and it was not until the war five years ago that our family moved to Wangcheng County in the east. Otherwise, I would still be sleeping with pigs in the country. ”

The mechanical crow flew over the field with a "chirping" and a sentence or two of "sir, sir" came out of its mouth from time to time. The people who were harvesting wheat in the fields looked at the steel monster bird, they had naturally never seen such a thing, the children took the hands of the adults, pointed to the crows and asked, and some old people who had never entered the city also looked at the crows in surprise, scratched their hair, and couldn't explain why.

"That, this is a robot crow, common in Wangcheng County and Huahai County, it's not aggressive, it's just a little mouthy, don't worry about it......" Andre walked towards a few old farmers in tattered plaid shirts and smiled at them, "Well, okay, I'm quite talkative, but a lot of mouth means I'm friendly, right?"

The old men, however, pulled the little ones behind them vigilantly, with deep hostility in their eyes.

"What's wrong?" Andre was stunned, and the men all turned away from them as if they had seen a monster.

He tried to walk towards the field, but suddenly a young man with a sickle came to him, brandishing the knife, and beside him was a thin black dog, which barked, and his sharp teeth were bitten together from time to time, and white gas was spewing out from his nose, as if he had seen a terrible enemy.

"Get out, guards!" the young farmer shoved André, the word "angry" written all over his face, "You are not welcome here!"

"Hey, wait......" Andre was almost pushed to the ground, and his injured shoulder was touched so hard by the farmer that it hurt again, "Ouch!

"Get out, soldiers, get out of here!" the young farmer picked up the scythe and threatened, the flesh and skin on his face twisted together, "Soldiers are not welcome here, we refuse to allow you to bring the war to Grey Moon Town!"

"Hey, we don't really have ......"

The farmer couldn't help but whistle, and the black dog beside him suddenly opened its sharp fangs, kicked its hind legs, and pounced on Andre!

"Bite that bastard soldier!" the surrounding peasants watched indifferently, and several young peasants or children all waved their fists in applause.

"Hey...... Oops!" Andrei had no chance to dodge at all!

The black dog leaped into the air, and when he was about to bite Andrei, Lilia suddenly pushed the farmer away, stopped in front of Andrei, and pulled out the bayonet from his waist with his right hand, the blade flashed white, the edge cut through the air, and the bayonet stuck into the black dog's mouth!

- The black dog howled, blood spilling into its mouth, staining its teeth red, and the smell of blood filling the air.

"Philip!" cried the farmer, "you damned royal lackeys dare to hurt it!"

"You guys hurt him first!" Lilia pulled out her bayonet and swung it, the blood splashed in the air in a semi-circular trajectory, and a light flashed in Lilia's eyes, "We're not bad people, so!"

The farmer roared and punched Lilia in the chest, and the bayonet screeched into the farmer's throat.

"So, please do it in moderation!"

"Oh, we don't share the sky with all the soldiers!"

However, in the next moment, the bayonet was already in the throat of the young farmer, and it was almost critical, "If I were a bad person, you would be dead." Lilia said unceremoniously, "And I'm not a soldier either. ”

"You ......" the farmer's eyes widened, at a loss.

"I won't hurt you. Lilia lowered her bayonet and looked up at the young farmer, who was a head taller than her, "But please don't hurt us. ”

The robot raven cried "sir", tossed the ears of wheat, and took off to Andrei's shoulder, where the adults and children on both sides stared blankly at them before finally thinking of stepping away.

It was as if they had seen a terrible monster, and their eyes were full of fear and fear. How, exactly, did they hate and fear the soldiers of the kingdom?

"Why, aren't you enough!" roared the young farmer hysterically, his voice almost out of tune, and he fell to his knees on the grass and looked desperately at the sky above him, "we can't afford to pay our taxes, so let us go......

So, that's why they attack the soldiers?

Andrei couldn't help but think, and there was a strange wave rolling in his heart. Yes, every year when the kingdom collects taxes, the rude kingdom soldiers will always loot people's belongings and even shoot women and children for a few pieces of dried meat or a few smoked fish.

Years of war have led to a deficit in the treasury, the soldiers have not had enough to eat, the nobles have extorted extortions, and ordinary citizens have no ability to resist and can only be plundered and bullied by the army.

André was well aware of these things, and he watched his colleagues loot in the house of an old man with only three children, and he could not forget the resentful eyes of the old man and the three children.

Just like the farmer in front of them, they want to resist, but they can't resist. It's really ironic, is the war against the Northern Empire, or the soldiers of his own kingdom?

All because of the war. André lamented, silently took off his guard uniform and threw it into the wilderness at will. People saw the blood-stained bandage under his shabby white shirt, and his face was unusually calm.

"If you hate soldiers, then I will no longer be soldiers from today. Andre clenched his uninjured hand into a fist and pressed it to his chest, "So, please allow us to enter Grey Moon Town, okay?" Andre narrowed his eyes and smiled.