3 [Second Olive Branch]
"Grass you horse!!"
In the chaos, Al followed his instinct to survive, and when forced to make a decision, he jumped off the ledge and ran into the night.
He had to run away, it was normal for serfs to steal for meat, and the sinister man was right, no one would trust a lowly serf. If he didn't run, he knew what would happen, and he even saw his companions, who were chatting with him, dragged to the edge of the field by those men, tortured and beaten to death on the spot.
The panicked serf fled all the way, he couldn't remember how he had escaped from the encirclement, he ran and ran, the mud under his feet turned into a hard, dry blue brick avenue, and when the pure moon disappeared from the night sky, and the glow penetrated the night, he was already in a completely strange place.
He managed to escape from the fat baron's manor, from the shameless woman and the sinister butler, and from the place where he had lived for more than ten years, and with the fear of the unknown, he jumped from the pale world into the great dye vat.
The confusion and fear in his heart had not yet had time to expel him, so he chose a random direction, begging all the way, only thinking of being a little farther away from the original place, a little farther away, and the result of this behavior usually could not escape death.
He collapsed on the side of the road with hunger, and at last he could not even beg for food.
If it weren't for the man in tight leather armor who showed up and saved him with a piece of black bread.
The serf turned into a starving ghost, and he put the black bread into his mouth without hesitation, but fortunately the man handed over a bag of water, otherwise he would have died.
Then, the man used a story to arouse Al's yearning, and the serf's miserable gray heart was shaken, and the gray gradually dyed a little color, and then the man used [two copper coins as a reward] promise to temporarily freeze the color in his heart.
The man tells Al that he is a free gold digger, and in his depiction, Al sees a rich and beautiful place full of gold.
This rejuvenated El's dim eyes, and he thought that after such injustice, the gods had finally favored him. Regardless of whether what the other party said was true or not, at least the copper coins in the other party's hand were real, even if it was for the bread and water that had entered his stomach, for the two copper coins, or for the black bread for the next meal, he had no reason to refuse.
This is not a forked road, compared to the darkness on both sides of the road, although the road ahead is a little unclear and unclear, at least this is a road, a choice that is not certain to die.
So he hurriedly struggled to his feet and bowed half-knees, for fear that the peeping eyes beside him would rob him of his vitality.
In this way, he became one of the many followers of the other party.
Under the leadership of the gold diggers, seven or eight beggars, who had been half-fed with black bread and had not yet been paid, carried large baskets on their backs, out of the outer gates of Luolong City, crossed the logging area, and followed the river called the Blackfish River into the valley, all the way into the woodland.
But after walking for a few days, except for a few small beasts that I met when I first entered the woodland of the valley, I didn't meet the things that the other party said along the way.
Not only that, but they were also attacked by an unexpected attack from a monster that looked like a wolf and a man, werewolves.
Maybe it was too coincidental for the gold diggers to choose a place to rest, or maybe it had already set its sights on them, when everyone was too tired to move, the werewolf jumped from a tree branch more than ten meters high and launched a surprise attack, the only gold digger with weapons and a possible threat to it, died the moment the werewolf jumped down, Al saw the gold digger's head was trampled to pieces, and the blood and brain that flowed out made his head look like a rotten watermelon poured with milk.
And the rest of the people, after reacting from the initial shock, screamed and ran away, the wise ones only with the desire to survive, and the stupid ones took a few goods, one of the most greedy, carrying a basket in the back and one in front, probably really frightened by hunger, and the gods took him at the first time.
Al was the lucky one of the misfortunes, as he was crouching a little farther away to defecate, and the werewolf had killed several people before turning his glowing green eyes at him in a hesitant manner.
While scolding in his heart, "I'm your grandmother!", he burst into tears, cut off the thing stiffly, lifted his pants and ran.
Thankfully, they kept moving along the river called [Blackfish], and Al ran to the river, where he performed the trick again not long after the last [leap].
The rushing river rescued him, and the werewolf glanced at him, and then turned and chased after the others.
Based on the speed and strength displayed by the werewolves, Al guessed that the corpses of the others might have turned into werewolf feces by now.
After climbing ashore, he could only walk back along the riverbank, trying to follow the river back to the town, but the river had already carried him deeper into the woodland, and he didn't know how many days the gap was, but judging from the unimpressed surroundings, he had not returned to the place where he had been attacked after so many days.
It's a sad story.
A rhythmic rustling sound pulled Al's consciousness out of her sorrow.
Well??
It was as if something was running through the branches and leaves and quickly coming this way, and after Al reacted, his heart was overjoyed, and the stomach juice was tumbling, constantly changing various forms in his mind, sometimes a rabbit, sometimes a roe deer.
He clenched the rattan in his hand and stared at the direction of the haystack, and the sound came from this direction, as if the gods had heard Al's prayer and made a special arrangement.
Though so far, what he thought he had been arranged by the gods ended up with a [leap] in the end......
But if people don't have dreams, what's the difference between them and salted fish?
The sound got closer and closer, and he seemed to see a little fool running around with a foot, which stepped on the rattan ring that was not too big, and then looked around stupidly, and then was hung up and beaten by himself.
Well, it's perfect, he licked his lips, the muscles in his body tensed subconsciously, ready to pull Qingteng with all his strength at any time.
Although life is so difficult, as long as you work hard and persevere, there will always be hope, such as now, even if you can never get out and eventually die in the woodland, but that is also a matter of later. The comfort from the gods was enough to keep him going until he had the next hope.