"Why don't you eat? Aren't you hungry?"

At night, when it was already dark, on the edge of the potato field in the valley, Hal asked Benjamin with two pieces of dry bread in his hand. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Benjamin shook his head, smiled reluctantly, and said, "Thanks, I don't have much appetite." ”

The moment he heard the news of Michelle's death, his feelings were quite mixed. This is equivalent to indirectly proving his previous conjecture - Michelle sacrificed himself to save him.

Why?

He couldn't believe it.

Therefore, he did not suspect that the church was deceiving. He thought that maybe the church didn't catch anyone at all and released the news just to appease the people. However, under his questioning, Hal described more details:

"The church proclamation says that the mage who spread the plague is not a real person, but a ghost formed after the death of a mage named Michelle. This kind of undead spirit is formed in a very special way, and it has a short lifespan, and it has been completely wiped out by the church. At the same time, the Church had begun to place purification crosses in the Kingdom's water sources, and no one could spread the plague through the water sources ever since. ”

After hearing this, Benjamin was stunned for a long time.

When he heard the word "Michelle", Benjamin knew that the church must have really caught Michelle. Otherwise, they all thought that Michelle had fled abroad, and how could they have thought that it was Michelle who spread the plague.

But what does the so-called "undead" mean?

...... Michelle has long since died?

Even if he was stunned, it was not enough to describe Benjamin's mood at the moment. He didn't even wonder if the church was telling nonsense again, but on second thought, there was no need for the church to lie about such things. It makes no difference to the people whether it is the mage or the mage's undead who spread the plague, and the church must say whatever it is, and there is no need to deceive on it.

So...... It's all true.

Michelle, who died outside for some reason, turned into an undead spirit, returned to the royal capital, and rescued him. In the end, she sacrificed her own body to help Benjamin lure the church's pursuers away.

It was as if there was a mountain pressing down on his chest, dull, depressing, and Benjamin felt like he couldn't breathe.

From the moment Michelle appeared, Benjamin had a subtle suspicion in his mind. He felt that Michelle's logic of doing things didn't make sense, and he felt that Michelle's personality had become different, but no matter how hard he racked his brains, he couldn't have thought that Michelle was dead at that time, and it was only her undead who escaped from the royal capital with him.

Truth be told, this world is not the kind where the undead are rampant. The undead basically only exist in a few legends, and it is rare to hear that he has actually seen undead creatures. And because of this. When a person dies, he dies, and it is almost impossible for the mind to continue to stay.

Unless, the person who died has an extremely strong obsession......

Thinking of this, Benjamin suddenly clenched his fists, and his mood was like being poured into a jar of wine with a bitter taste, which was complicated and difficult to say.

He remembered that before being pushed out of the carriage, Michelle suddenly became extremely excited, and said a lot about "not living" with him. Benjamin had never seen Michelle have such a big mood swing, and her hatred for the church was like blood gushing out after the major artery had been cut, almost staining most of the royal capital.

She hated the church like that.

Benjamin suddenly felt that he could experience this feeling a little.

"As long as you're a mage, as long as the church exists for a day......" he involuntarily whispered Michelle's words at that time.

"What did you say?" In reality, Hal was still standing with bread in his hand. He didn't hear what Benjamin was saying, so he frowned and asked.

Benjamin came to his senses, shook his head, and said, "It's nothing, it's me...... A person I knew died. ”

Even at this moment, when the words came to his lips, he found that he couldn't think of any words to use to describe Michelle. Their relationship is too complicated, companions, enemies, calculations, rescues...... After thinking about it for a long time, he could only hold back a stumbling sentence of "people he knows".

A plain and unusually tortuous definition.

Listening to other people's ears, it probably only seems to have no beginning and no tail.

However, Hal nodded thoughtfully, as if understanding Benjamin's mood at the moment. As if trying to comfort someone, he reached out and patted Benjamin on the shoulder, only to pat Benjamin on the crumbs.

"Don't be too upset, people die. But he didn't seem to notice this, and continued to speak, and said to himself, "At the beginning, I had just crawled out of the horse manure heap, and everyone I knew died. Boss, Ant, Volcano, Axe...... I was so sad at the time, I felt that I was really useless, ashamed, sorry for everyone, what is the point of living. I was so sad that I had no appetite, and I sat on the hill for a day and a night, thinking that I was dead. ”

Although Benjamin was a little tempted to tell Hal that their boss was not dead at the time, but had fled in the chaos, ...... Never mind.

A little thief's good impression of their boss, he better not spoil it.

"But you didn't choose to marry yourself, and you didn't stay sad, but you still survived well. After thinking about it, he followed the other party's words and asked, "Why?"

It's not that I'm not curious about the story, it's just that ...... Just ask.

However, in the face of this question, Hal tossed the bread in his hand, and as a matter of course, said:

"Because I'm hungry. ”

“......”

Benjamin was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say.

"I was sad and guilty, but all of a sudden, I became so hungry. "I was so hungry that I went down the mountain to find something to eat." Then, I met Nina and Sandy at the bottom of the mountain. ”

Speaking of this, Hal paused, as if recalling the details of the time, before continuing: "At that time...... They were sitting on the side of the road, each holding a piece of dry bread. I walked over and asked if they could give me something to eat. Nina nodded and tore half of the bread in her hand for me. I took it and ate it in a few bites. They saw me eating and asked me why I was so hungry and my family didn't care about me. I told them that I had no family. They were very happy to hear and told me that they were like me and had no family. ”

As he spoke, Hal laughed silly a few times and said, "Nina also said that it is easy to run out of food without help, and then asked me if I wanted to find food with them." At that time, I thought the bread she gave me was delicious, the best bread I had ever eaten in my life. I still want to eat bread like that, so I said, okay, I'll look for something with you. ”

And then ...... Then I started looking for food with them. Slowly, Nina said that we had to have a place to live, so we built a house together, hunted and farmed every day, and never went hungry again. Sometimes, I have to help them run around town to buy some weird things, which I don't really like, but ...... Anyway, that's how life passes, you can eat enough every day, it's nothing special. ”

And just like that, Hal finished telling the story of his life. But after listening to this story, Benjamin felt something strange.

"You...... Don't you think that you are a good robber, and you are called by two little girls every day, and your life is very aggrieved?" After thinking about it for a long time, he organized such a sentence, but in fact, he didn't quite understand what he wanted to express in his heart.

It was just an inexplicable emotion that drove him to ask something, and he couldn't help but open his mouth.

"No, it won't. However, after hearing this, Hal asked in a puzzled tone, "You are so strange, you think so much every day, do you feel this and that, don't you get tired of living?"

“......”

Benjamin laughed dumbly.

I don't know why, but I feel like I've been taught a lesson for some reason.

"I've told you so much that my mouth is dry. Hal shook his head and said, "Hey, are you still going to eat these two pieces of bread?" ”

“...... I eat. ”

Benjamin took the bread and nibbled on it. Strangely, he began to have the illusion that this piece of dry bread, which was as hard as a stone, seemed to be quite delicious?

The system came out and said, "The dry bread soaked in chicken soup will definitely not taste bad." ”

“...... Just talk a lot about you. ”

Half of the bread was eaten, and seeing that Hal had also turned to go back to the cabin, Benjamin suddenly came back to his senses, and hurriedly spoke, and asked, "By the way, didn't you say that there are two messages?

Hearing this, Hal also scratched his head, and seemed to have just remembered this stubble.

"Yes, the second message, I almost forgot. He smiled embarrassedly, hurriedly spoke, and continued, "The second news is that this afternoon, the adults of the church have a particularly big ...... in the royal capital What's it called? It seems to be ...... Entrance ceremony?"