Chapter Twenty-Six: Night
There will be a dark night in the abyss of eternal day, and Daimura doesn't know when—it's dark.
It was so deep and dark, there were no clouds, and it was so black that there was no starlight. There was only a blood-colored waning moon, and the fog was from a distant place, focusing on this remote place.
In the dilapidated village under its influence, all kinds of villagers walked out of the house to bathe in the blood moon. The patrolling guards stood still in the moonlight, and a black, viscous liquid gushed out from the gaps in their armor. Tick-tock, tick-tock, inhuman wails faintly came from within.
And this is not an isolated case, every villager in Dai Village has undergone abnormal changes, the seven orifices flow out of the smelly black liquid, and something is densely arching under the clothes or where the limbs are covered.
"In a broken village, there are many people, and there is a mushroom that doesn't sleep......"
Xili, who was humming a nursery rhyme, although she didn't have these abnormalities, her orange eyes turned blood red unconsciously. But she didn't seem to know anything about it, and her little hand caressed Diggie, who was eating, looked pleasant, and strange nursery rhymes gradually penetrated the house and drifted around the village:
"People, people, so many people, are hiding from girls ......"
In the large earthen house near the small square in the center of the village, the village elder Gray and the obese middle-aged man Meng Li were sitting facing each other and staring at each other silently.
The room was quiet, you looked at me, I looked at you, the black reddened liquid slowly dripping from the corners of their eyes, mouths, nostrils, etc.
Tick-tock, their godless eyes turned pitch black, and their mouths all grinned in a big arc, maintaining an affectionate gaze at each other. In silence, their clothes rose and fell in the silence, and there were some living creatures below who kept scurrying around.
"Go behind the door, go under the bed, go to the eaves, laugh hehe......"
Xili's singing voice floated and floated to the small square in the center.
This clearing, once where villagers prayed to the gods, is now completely abandoned. As if something had happened, the ground of the square was scorched black, and pools of blood could be seen dotted in many places. In the center of the square, the rudimentary cross, bound with a wooden rope, was also useless, black and lonely swaying in the wind.
"People, people, many people, are playing with mushroom Liang......" The song continued, and suddenly there was a strange noise in the two silent earthen houses around the cross. In one of the rooms, a coarse cloth painted with sacred patterns was used as a curtain, and the sound of women sobbing could be heard. Another mud house had a rare wooden door, and a knock came from inside.
"You and I, the noisy girl is looking for her mother......"
At the edge of the village, in what looked like a blacksmith's workshop.
The black, fishy-smelling liquid kept oozing from under the coarse cloth that the man wrapped around his head. Tick, tick, slowly slid down his cheeks to his lean upper body, but he didn't care what he continued to hit with the hammer.
"People, people, a lot of people, staring at children and smiling......"
As he sang, the frequency of his beats became slower and slower, and an ugly thin rod of more than a meter on the anvil table took shape. The elegant woman, whose wife, who did not know when, stood behind him, and naturally took the iron rod, which she did not know what to do, and threw it into the furnace.
呲呲呲..... The dark green flames in the furnace licked it, and a fat woman walked into the room, staring at the stove and standing silently waiting. In the light of the green fire, the three of them looked at the stove without speaking, and were as quiet as this quiet night.
"People, people, a lot of people, staring at children and smiling......"
"Singing, the fire dances, flickering and melting...... the crisp children's voice suddenly stopped, and Xili saw Diggie finish eating the food for the fifth time, and her grinning little hand touched the grass, "Ah, the ball is so good, eat so much." But don't worry, Xili still has a big guy!"
As she spoke, she struggled to pull out a piece of black meat.
The meat was a bit big and a little odd in shape, but the simple Diggie never cared about the shape of the food. What's more, as soon as this meat appeared, it completely intoxicated its heart, and the room was filled with a mellow and wonderful atmosphere.
Unable to stop, it didn't think much about it, and the whole body of the ball pounced on it, greedily eating again. After all, how can the dependents who have signed an equal contract harm it?
"Hee-hee, I knew this big guy could make Qiuqiu happy. Curled up and crouched on the ground again, Xili was pleased with its performance. The big blood-red eyes narrowed happily, and she said softly: "Eat quickly, eat quickly~ After eating, you can be with Xili forever." ”
Diggie's eyes widened at her as if to say, 'This is not nonsense, isn't the contract of equality permanent?'
"I know you like Xili too, can Xili continue to sing to you?" Xiao Xili tilted her head, as if thinking about where she had just sung. It took a while to remember, and the melodious nursery rhyme floated again:
"People, people, so many people, people dancing on the fire...... On a white day, on a cool night, the girl looking for her mother is gone. ”
Soon the singing of the echoing Dai village ended, and the busyness of the people seemed to have just begun. The end was like a signal, and every villager couldn't wait to go to the small square.
......
Bang Dang!
A gorgeous half-human-high greatsword fell to the ground. Solar, the knight of the sun, crossed the space and fell outside the village of Dai. A delicate round object beneath him also dimmed and shattered, and the temple beacon was rendered useless.
Oh gag!
A mouthful of black blood was spat out by him as he raised his head, and when it landed, it made a corrosive sound.
After forcing out the vicious evil force that infected his body for the first time, his face was much better. With his large white armor in his hand, he touched the hilt of the Great Sword of the Sun, and Solal stood up tremblingly.
The joy of escaping suddenly dropped to the freezing point after he saw Daicun in front of him shrouded in black fog.
"How so? Is that demon telling the truth?" ...... Solar didn't dare to think any further, and his intention to stay for a while to recover from his injuries was shattered.
His mind was full of questions, and his heart was full of anxiety, and he divided most of the powerful sun power in his body to suppress the injury, and hurriedly strode forward.
But Solal didn't think that the power of the sun used most of it to suppress the injury, and the rest was used with that trace of divine power to resist the erosion of the abyssal breath - he was actually no different from a strong ordinary person.
One foot in heaven, one foot in hell.
Not long after, as soon as he entered the range of the black fog, he saw a night scene in front of him.
In the original village, there was no demon wreaking havoc as he thought, no blood stains on his stump limbs, only dilapidated earthen houses quietly shrouded in the blood moon, which seemed quiet and beautiful. However, Solar's heart chuckled quickly, and in addition to the erosion of the abyssal aura, he immediately felt another more troublesome corrosion—the power of the Abyss Old God.