Chapter 41: The City That Never Sleeps (1)
Advance letter
At the time of the sunset
The Faceless Knight will cut off the Last Dawn
The dead are reborn on the most gorgeous stage
The noble life will disappear in a magnificent way
- King of Thieves
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After a few days of stop-and-go, Ai Lian and Ai Yue finally came to the largest town in the south, Eternal Night Town.
Eternal Night Town is the southernmost town in the Western Continent, and legend has it that Eternal Night Town is the existence of the Great Snow Mountain of Charal.
There were once monsters that invaded the Western Continent, and these monsters were omnipotent in the heavens and on the earth, defeating the Western Continent at that time.
It was at this time that a race came forward, rumored to be a mysterious clan from the Eastern Continent, who claimed to be a thief who stole everything they could.
All of them have skills beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and they come and go without a trace. For a while, these invading monsters missed one after another, and were gradually forced to the very edge of the Western Continent.
Eventually, these monsters were driven into the Charald Snow Mountain by the thieves, and the patriarch of the thieves at that time sealed the entrance to the Charald Snow Mountain with a mysterious array, and since then these monsters can only live here, isolated from the human world.
This time, Elen's target is the legendary Charald Snow Mountain, which is sealed with countless monsters.
After a few days of stop-and-go, Eren and Ai Yue finally approached the remote town of Eternal Night.
But the closer they got, the more they felt something was wrong.
Ai Yue, who has always been not afraid of heaven and earth, even hid behind Ai Lian, and the intuition of the holy weapon itself surpassed ordinary people, so this strange feeling made Ai Yue even more uneasy.
"Now, Ellen. Was the sky so dark just now?" Ai Yue asked in a low voice as she approached Ai Lian again.
Almost instantly, the sky was overcast.
It's not the gloom that precedes a rainstorm, it's the gloom that gets dark.
There was no peculiar smell of rain in the air, but without warning, and the sky above me darkened.
Not... It's like being in a bright room and suddenly the lights are turned off.
"Well, it's a little, you get closer to me, be careful. Ai Lian looked around, and everything around him did reveal something unusual. There was neither wind nor rain, but the air around them suddenly became cold.
Ai Lian gently held Ai Yue's hand to prevent the two from separating.
"Ahh Alan looked in the direction that Elan was pointing, and a large area of fiery red light lit up half of the sky.
Elen pondered for a moment and said, "This should be the town of Eternal Night, right?" ”
"Is there a little bit of a heart house in Eternal Night?" "Even if she is in a very difficult place, Ai Yue always thinks about food.
But this kind of talent is like Ai Yue.
"Dim sum house, there should be. Since it's a small town, it's too miserable to lack everything. Eileen chuckled and said, he used to be a small town without a shop, all the residents of the town were living a self-sufficient life, and everything they lacked was exchanged between direct neighbors, although the town was very soft, and the people in it were very hospitable, but there was still something missing for Elian.
"Oh yes!Dim Sum~Dim Sum~Dim Sum~" Ai Yue, who heard the food, instantly forgot her fear, and pulled Ai Lian and ran towards the land of fire.
I don't know why, Ai Lian always feels that the future is a little uncertain.
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"Well... Is that why you sabotaged the sacrifice?"
A stern voice interrupted Eren's memories, and in front of her, there was a small, serious face.
"I really didn't destroy your sacrifice ... I'm just hungry and can't help it, so I took some small cookies on the table. Ai Yue said with a sad face and slurred words.
That's how it happened.
When Elan and Aetsune came to this town, all the houses and all the shops were closed.
And on the square in the center of the town, a large group of people gathered.
They were lying on the ground, not knowing what they were muttering. And in front of this gang, there is a high platform.
On the high platform was a middle-aged man dressed strangely and wearing a feather hat on his head. is humming and singing something around a cauldron.
The strange middle-aged man shouted a language that Eren didn't understand as he threw the contents of a table at hand into the cauldron.
Seeing this strange scene, Ai Lian originally wanted to evacuate the town directly, after all, it was not good to disturb other people's unique rituals, and Ai Lian had heard that some barbarians in the Western Continent would directly eat outsiders who ruined their rituals.
As a young man who wants to live a few more years, Alan doesn't want to experience the experience of being eaten raw.
Just when Ai Lian was about to pull Ai Yue away, Ai Yue, who was only focused on "eating", couldn't bear it anymore, only to see Ai Yue rush out of the crowd one by one, and then jumped onto the high platform with a leap in the chaos of the scene, and then knocked the stunned weird middle-aged man into the pot.
The scene suddenly fell silent. Originally, all the people lying under the high platform were stunned.
Finally, under everyone's gaze, Ai Yue began to eat the snacks on the table.
Well, although it is not good to eat other people's food, it is not enough to arrest us directly. After all, it's your fault for putting all the food outside, and it's a complete crime to put food outside to tempt others!
Facing a large group of men in police uniforms, Ai Lian thought aggrievedly.
And Ai Yue's treatment was much better, not only was she interrogated by a cute little girl in uniform, but also gave Ai Yue a freshly baked biscuit. On the other hand, on Ai Lian's side, a dry flatbread doesn't even give him a glass of water, is this trying to choke him to death?
But Ai Lian didn't think about it so much, the big rough man in front of him was not as easy to fool as the young lady over there.
"Well, what is this?" a police officer asked, picking up a red stone in front of Allen.
Ai Lian subconsciously wanted to touch his nose, but found that he was still being tortured, so he had to give up this plan, and said angrily: "Well, this is a thing called the Philosopher's Stone, which can bring people eternal life, in layman's terms, it can make people immortal." ”
"Philosopher's Stone, eternal life, hehe!" the officer looked at Eren with a "you can brag" expression, and then casually tossed the Philosopher's Stone aside.
"A rusty Hidden Blade, a fishing line without a fishing hook, a broken stone, a large mess of glass balls, and a pocket watch that won't go. The policeman counted Ailian's belongings, then looked at Airen with a regretful expression, and said, "I finally know why you are so hungry that you go to eat the sacrificial food." ”
"Ah, sir, it's good that you can understand it! We were hungry and cold all the way, and we almost didn't die on the road. Ai Lian cried and mourned, and he almost didn't hold the other party's thigh.
"Forget it, two poor ghosts! I'd be a waste of food to put them with us. A man who looked like the head of the gang said. Then he waved his hand, and Ai Lian and Ai Yue were thrown out of the police station.
"No, I haven't finished eating yet!" Ai Yue cried out to go back and finish her biscuits, but was stopped by an iron door.
Ai Lian didn't pay attention to Ai Yue, but began to count the items he had just been searched.
"Hmm... You can't afford to lose it. Ai Lian took the pocket watch that was ridiculed by the police officer and couldn't leave, gently stuffed it into his arms, and said softly.