Chapter Twenty-Nine: Heart of Darkness Stronghold
The feeling of revisiting the old place is full of emotion and surprise, Fei Yue stood on the hill where she and Phimi and the others were stationed in the past, when she was still a small undead, and now, when she stands here with Hotaru and Earl, she has become an existence that all beings look up to. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Now Fei Yue's location is close to the small forest where the bandits raided last time, looking to the west, you can vaguely see the towering city walls of the capital of the African European Federation, but there has been no war here for a long time, even the city walls are covered with green moss, and you can see a swaying sea of white flowers under the city wall, that is the poppy, Fei Yue remembers the words of this flower, maybe someone also intentionally planted this flower under the city wall, used to pay tribute to those soldiers who died for the country but could not know their names.
As mentioned before, Hull's location is close to the border of Fei'er, that is, the north of the non-European Federation, and the moon has come from the north all the way, and before you know it, the towering mountains have become a scenery that can only be seen on the distant horizon.
When Fei Yue and his party continued to move forward, it was already afternoon from the hillock into this grove, the bright sunlight reflected the golden light through the yellow leaves of the grove, these lights were reflected in Fei Yue's eyes, but she felt dizzy more than the gold coins imprisoned in the Earl Cave, at this time, those brilliance has turned into a memory symbol, once again evoking Fei Yue's endless thoughts, this is a bit of a waste of time, but the contemplative Fei Yue and the grove filled with golden light have become a wonderful scenery.
Not only Earl, but also Hotaru who had been in the shadow of the Moon, stood with Earl, quietly admiring this picture that they will never forget, in the legend, the Moonlight is high and full of pity, and now, the Moonlight is like a lonely epiphany, quietly blooming in a withered leaf, lonely, lonely, sad-
Perhaps it was because Fei Yue's appearance at this time made time feel amazed, so that the time passed very slowly at this moment, and the three of them neither moved nor spoke, as if the three statues were placed here by time, locked here by time, and forgotten here by time.
Until a long time passed, so long that the three of them even their memories and words became blurred, so long that everyone opened their mouths but couldn't spit out a single note, at this time, Fei Yue finally spoke, just like the sky suddenly cracked a huge crack, and the cold sound broke all the silence, so the trees began to shake, the birds began to sing, and the wind began to bring the soft groan of green leaves.
"Let's go!"
Just when everyone thought that Fei Yue might sing a song or show some other sighing gesture, two ordinary words came to the ears of all things, and then, like the two ordinary words she spit out, Fei Yue began to enter the depths of the grove by stepping on the dead leaves that clattered under her feet.
Fei Yue came to a camp and sat down, "We used to rest here, and there are still people using it!" An indescribable sadness invaded Fei Yue's thoughts, and she had a premonition that had been with her since she fused with the light, just like her own shadow, and her future self would be like this shadow of herself.
But a person can't dwell on her past forever, especially when she still has a burden on her, "Sorry, I'm delaying too much time!"
After that, Fei Yue began to speed up her pace, following her past memories, into her original memories of killing, this memory had been with her for a long time, and during that time, her attitude towards life was also very vague, since she was a child, she was told a truth, follow the local customs, compared to the previous colorful world, this world does not even exist hypocritical cover-up, just like hypocrites and real villains.
The three of them walked for about another afternoon, and by the time Earl and Hotaru arrived at the bandits' first stronghold under the leadership of Fei Yue, it was already completely dark, and although it was not yet in the state of reaching out and not seeing five fingers, for mortals, their vision had been greatly reduced.
"I didn't expect there to be people living here!" Fei Yue heard the voice of people talking as she approached the stronghold, but it was not like bandits, but more like a group of refugees who had fled here, and they had not come here very early, but a few days ago.
"What are they hiding-" Hotaru's hearing is better than Feiyue's, and her ability to absorb information is stronger than Feiyue's, after all, Feiyue has never been trained in this area, and Feiyue doesn't need to be trained in this area, "They're fugitives!" After about ten minutes, Hotaru came to a conclusion.
"Fugitives, criminals among humans, human beings are already terrible, so criminals are innocent of death even if they are eaten by me, right?" Earl is a little stubborn about humanity, it has been imprisoned for too long, perhaps, it is now stubborn about everything it can eat.
"No, too many people have already died at our hands!" Fei Yue grabbed Earl's shoulder, who wanted to step forward, "You just ate a whole human vanguard, I'm afraid there will be problems when you show your original form again, and this place is too close to the capital, once it is surrounded, it will still be very troublesome!"
After that, Feiyue began to summon mist, which is a very, very basic magic, or illusion, and it is late at night, and there is nothing too suspicious about the fog-shrouded woods, and most importantly, they can use the fog to traverse this place and then reach their destination all the way.
At the beginning of the period, the fog was only a thin layer, falling from the sky, floating from the ground, slowly, the wind stopped, and the fog became more and more dense, until the people living in the stronghold could barely see each other, but now most of them, except for those on duty patrol, have also fallen into a deep sleep, so they basically will not be affected by some situations where they hit their own people's blades because of poor vision.
"I'll just say I hate the woods the most, the damn fog seems to blind my eyesโ" As Fei Yue and his party reached the entrance to the stronghold, they heard someone complaining from the watchtower above their left.
"I finally know why that guy in Kashgar would rather go up to the mountains to hunt than come to the night shift, this damn fog has wet my hand sleeves, oh, please, I'll have the leader build a lookout with only a window here!"
While the criminals in the watchtowers on both sides were talking and complaining, Fei Yue and his party had already passed through this stronghold and began to enter the long mountain road, although it was not as steep as the mountain range, but it was also very steep, and there was no protection or cover, and if you were not careful, you would even fall to the river about two feet on the left, the river was so turbulent that once you fell, even a middle-aged man who was familiar with water might not be able to return to the sky.
Then, the road to the mountain began to make a sharp turn, there was a date tree, there were still many rotten fruits left under the tree, standing here as if standing here is the only flat land in this mountain made of mud, surrounded by either red dirt, or green woods, if you are lucky, you can still see animals drinking by the river during the day, but it is late at night, and most of the animals are resting.
In the past, it was supposed to be a rest, because there was an upward spiral road ahead, and this road would not stop until it reached the halfway point of the mountain, and it was a physically demanding and dangerous journey for humans, so it was not surprising to rest here for a while.
Halfway up the mountain, you have to cross a suspension bridge made of ropes and planks, below which is the river that came from nowhere, and where it will go, the ropes of the suspension bridge look very old and have not been used for a long time, and the planks that provide the stepping on have also decayed, I am afraid that they cannot support the weight of a person, but the three people here are not ordinary people, and it is natural and easy to get through here.
This suspension bridge is the last natural danger, after walking over the suspension bridge is a relatively smooth upward mountain road, because no one has walked for a long time, this is already the territory of plants and flowers, but there are no poisonous insects and beasts, although Feiyue and his party still seem cautious, but it seems that even the gods do not know the location of the dark heart, there is no sign of danger, and there is no attempt to block the way, until a dilapidated but fortress-like building appeared in front of the three of them.
This place still maintains the appearance of when Fei Yue left, as if time has frozen here, the heavy stone gate of the fortress is half open, which was opened when Fei Yue left last time, and the gaps are still as if Fei Yue could only pass through then.
Earl pushed the door open, and the heavy dust was like a raging wave, engulfing them before they could react, and when the dust returned to the earth, their faces seemed to be smeared with a layer of gouache, and their clothes were stained.
"Earl, did you mean it?" Hotaru's tone was reproachful, but when she saw Earl more embarrassed than herself, the reproachful tone was a little pleasant, "Oh, it seems you didn't mean to!" she said with a smile.
"Don't laugh at me, if you see yourself, you'll see that you're not as good as a marble sculpture!" Earl glanced at Hotaru who laughed at him, "Oh, no, throw you on the street and maybe those stupid humans will think you're a sculpture, of course, it's more likely that you'll be moved away and thrown into a corner of the museum that no one else can see!"
Hotaru and Earl argued endlessly, but Fei Yue seemed very calm, behind the door was a wide playground, the weapons on the playground had been rusted, the horses had all died because no one had fed them, and now there was only a white skeleton left in the stable, this was Fei Yue's omission, she had been carried away by the bloodthirsty excitement at that time, although she could still keep a little sober, but there was really not much.
"Darkheart should be here!" Feiyue muttered to herself as she stood in the middle of the playground, "but why can't I feel Darkheart's breath at all?"