Chapter 38: Introduction
The Valoran continent is still a backward world, in this era of underdeveloped smelting technology, the firing of glass is very complicated, and only the princes and nobles can afford to use it.
In order to ventilate and save candles, ordinary farmers simply use wooden fences as a window. When it's hot, there's nothing in the window fence to ventilate and let in light.
When it's cold, people find ways to plug the frame and stuff it with hay, rags, animal skins, and the like to keep them warm. When the wind and snow are so heavy that the holes in the frame can't be blocked, the people at the bottom will huddle into a bed with their families to warm each other to resist the cold.
Carl, the lord of Marlowe, is undoubtedly the kind of person who can afford to use glass.
Horn's soul returned to the body at a very fast speed, and the moment the body and soul became one, a pair of green eyes instantly cleared!
Moonlight poured into the room through the opaque glass, illuminating the bed curtains, and the sleeping people could be seen dimly from the outside.
If you look out of the window from the inside......
A sneaky figure suddenly rose from below...... The silhouette on the glass is clearly a strange pig-headed human body!
An unknown liquid dripped down his arch mouth, and Horn's vision was obstructed by the curtain and the glass, and he couldn't see what was coming out of his mouth.
It could be saliva...... It could also be blood.
Horn's heart froze.
- What about Victor?
...... He's dead?
"Vomit ......"
Before she could think about it, the pig-headed man's hands outside the window had already begun to pick at his throat!
Gradually, the sound of vomiting continued, and he crouched down again, and when he stood up again, he began to draw things on the glass of the window with blood!
He sketched so quickly that a human being hung upside down soon appeared on the glass.
There is a clear gap in the throat of the man in the painting, and at that gap, the pig-headed man's hand keeps smearing blood upwards in an attempt to depict a river of blood. His fingers tossed around the stomach of the person in the painting, pulling out one thing after another......
Next to him, he added another bathtub, which was full of blood......
A strange and bloody painting is completed.
The main characters are humans.
The human being is slaughtered like animals, cut throats and cramps, disemboweled, and then hung upside down in a bathtub to bleed.
After doing all this, the pig-headed man began to dance outside the window!
He shook the pig's brain, his limbs twisted incomparably, scratching and jumping at the moon, and constantly emitting a "hum" pig cry in his arched mouth.
The cry changed from calm at first, to agitation, and finally to screaming! Like the last wail of a pig being killed!
With a final scream, the pig-headed man vomited a large amount of blood and threw himself at the window!
Horn took out the dagger in an instant, squinted his eyes to find a good angle, and threw the dagger at the glass with all his strength!
The dagger didn't reflect in the moonlight, and it pierced the bed curtain with ease, streaked through the air, and stabbed the pig-headed man outside the glass with incredible precision!
"Clickββ!"
The glass shattered the moment it collided with the dagger, and the dagger didn't have much force removed by the glass, and stabbed fiercely at the pig-headed man outside the window!
However, the expected scream did not appear, but with a "clang", the dagger fell to the ground.
The pig-headed man mysteriously vanished.
"Pretending to be a ghost!"
Horn lifted the quilt and got out of bed, exuding an extremely cold aura, and she kicked the door open, only to find Victor and the other guards dizzy on the ground.
Horn casually poked under Victor's nose...... Not dead.
7 followed her and said slowly behind her, "I see it clearly. β
Horn ignored him and kicked Victor instead. Victor lay on the dusty ground, unmoving.
I don't know if I was knocked unconscious or drugged.
...... According to this posture, I am afraid that I will not wake up tonight.
Under the window, the broken glass was indeed painted with blood, and the dagger lay quietly in the blood stains and fragments on the ground, and Horn picked it up without care, wiped it clean on a guard's clothes, and pinned it to his thigh.
"Don't you ask me what I'm seeing?"
Horn asked perfunctorily, "Oh, what do you see?"
"Humans. β
...... Just know.
Horn gave 7 a blank look: "Nonsense. β
She bent down and began to carefully discern the shallow, shallow, ...... footprints in the dust. Under normal circumstances, the height of a human being must be at least 1.75 meters tall.
Judging by the ease with which he dodged Horn's dagger, he must have been extraordinary...... Horn didn't want to go toe-to-toe with the unknown.
So, after only two seconds of thought, she decided to go to sleep.
...... No mining tonight.
"Aren't you curious?"
7 Seeing that she was so big that she lay on the bed, she couldn't help asking.
In the past, he was asked all kinds of temptations, why did he just let go of that thing today?
Horn fell on his back on the bed in a "big" shape, in fact, his heart was itching.
She glanced at 7, who was standing in front of the shattered, bloody window, and with his eerily pale mask, a demonic figure alive.
Horn: "......"
Suddenly, I lost interest in talking to 7.
Her eyes were closed, and she looked like she was about to fall asleep......
However, at this moment, there was a sudden scalp-numbing sound outside the room!
"Vomit ......"
Horn: "!!"
The pig-headed man is back!
He started vomiting outside the window again, making the screams of the pig before he died, but the window had been broken, so instead of standing outside the window, he started to behave somewhere on the wall outside the room!
Horn got up angrily, gritted his teeth, grabbed the dagger and rushed out!
"Damn the beast!
γDing ββ! has detected that you have a tendency to act next, and you have led the development of the plot, do you choose to accept the mission: "Find out the truth about the pig-headed man" (free choice)?]
"Accept!"
......
At the corner of the castle cloister, the pig-headed man seemed to be afraid that Horn would be lost, and waited for her for a while, revealing a white pig's ear.
As soon as he saw Horn approaching, he rushed to the front again.
Horn followed unhurriedly and found that the pig-headed man was really waiting for her...... I really want to lead her somewhere.
7 followed her like a ghost. But Horn didn't feel safe at all, 7 this guy, clearly came out to watch the show.
She pinched the dagger that was attached to her thigh, ready to pull it out at any moment.
The night crow called "whoa", and the withered roses in the cracked walls drooped their heads, and they all fell to the ground as soon as the wind blew by the passing walks.
A pig, a man and a ghost roam the castle at night, this strange combination seems extremely absurd.
They soon left the castle - the guards of the castle had long since fallen asleep.
The more Horn walked, the more frightened he became, and a chill began to run down his spine......
What kind of extravagance is this...... She began to suspect that everyone in the castle was under control except her.
7 followed behind him like a leisurely walk, and said lightly: "Are you going to retreat?"
Horn immediately denied: "No, that step has already been taken...... If I don't know, he'll come back to me at any time of the day. β
In the middle of the conversation, just a corner, the pig-headed man disappeared in an instant......
As far as the eye can see, on the bank of the moat, I can only see an old woman in green washing her shroud under the dim moonlight......