Chapter 1: The Pit
The endless field was covered with a faint layer of gold in the setting sunset, and a large road stretched straight from the end of the sky, cutting the whole field in half, although the road was wide and seemed to be the main traffic artery, but because of the cold weather, there were hardly any pedestrians on the road, only a horse-drawn carriage running alone.
The driver is a strong man with a height of more than two meters, thick and short thick eyebrows look a little weird, or ugly, and faintly reveal a bit of fierceness, his face is covered with horizontal meat, it is said that both men and women, most of the people with horizontal meat on their faces are surnamed Liangbo, and the strong man seems to be deliberately verifying this sentence, from time to time to make a low, let people listen to the scalp numb laughter, laugh to the proud, but also used to the surname stretched out a thick and fat tongue, licking the frost flowers condensed on the side of the mouth.
In a moment, the strong man suddenly drove the carriage into a small fork in the road, the fork was not so flat, not to mention the potholes, there were sharp or round stones everywhere, and the carriage was like a boat in a storm, constantly shaking, but these did not affect the mood of the strong man in the slightest, and the eyes that were always full of excitement were powerful proof.
As the carriage passed through a grove, the strong man grabbed the reins with all his might, then jumped out of the carriage, looked around, and then took a thick shovel from the wheel of the carriage and strode into the woods.
The door of the carriage was pushed open, and a middle-aged man in light armor came out of the carriage, and like the strong man, he first looked around for a moment, then unhurriedly arranged his clothes, and finally solemnly straightened the badge on his chest.
It was the badge of a gifted samurai, and the badge was painted with a delicate small sword with three golden stars inlaid in the center, showing the identity of this middle-aged man.
In fact, the gifted samurai is not a level of popularity, and there are many people who have reached this stage in the pan-continent, but this place is far away from the metropolis, and there are only a few small towns nearby, and people with ability, Yan or power usually do not settle here.
"It's damn weather. The middle-aged man muttered, then turned around, and when his gaze fell on the carriage, his eyes softened, and there was a hint of pity, and then he took out a small package from his waist and said softly: "Young Master Theo, are you hungry? With that, the middle-aged man put his skin on the carpet in the carriage.
"Uh-hu......h," and with a low answer, a young man of eighteen or nineteen appeared at the entrance of the carriage, because he hung his head so that he could not see his face clearly, and could only see a pale hand, stretched out at a ridiculously slow speed, grasped the package, and then opened it little by little, and the package contained a dozen pieces of dried meat, and a wine sac made of animal skins.
The young man named Dio ignored the wine bag, but used his two fingertips to twist a piece of dried meat and slowly bring it to his mouth.
Looking at Dio's stiff movements, the middle-aged man's eyes were full of helplessness, or rather, a contradiction, and his face was also uncertain, he just wanted to speak, but heard a shout from the forest: "Roy, what are you doing?"
"Young Master Theo, you sit here for a while, and I'll come when I go. The middle-aged man said softly, then turned around and walked quickly into the depths of the dense forest.
In the forest, the strong man rotated the shovel hard, and kept digging on the ground, although the ground under his feet had been condensed into pieces of stiff frozen soil by the cold current, but he still withstood the shovel in the hand of the strong man, and only for a moment, there was a shallow pit on the ground.
"Roy, you had a great chat with that idiot young master, right?" the strong man looked up and said with a strange smile.
Roy was silent, bowing his head and saying nothing.
"You guy, like a, you can't do anything big if you don't see you. The strong man changed to a sarcastic tone.
"He's our young master after all, Tomble, do we really want to ......?"
"Phew!" the strong man spat heavily, and said hatefully, "Whose young master is that waste? Damn, that is, his fate is good, otherwise he would have died long ago! Roy, look at your unproductive appearance, do you know why Miss let us come with us? Because she doesn't believe you at all." ”
"I understand...... Miss hates him......" Roy tried his best to hide the anger in his heart, and said slowly: "Then there is no need to kill him? You also said just now, he is a waste, there are hundreds of people in the manor, can't he have one more?"
"Do you have an opinion? Then you go to the young lady yourself. Tomble's voice suddenly became cloudy: "But I ...... Be sure to carry out Miss's orders, okay, Roy, I don't need your help, get out of the way, talk nonsense, be careful that I kill you together. ”
Suffering insults one after another, Roy really couldn't bear it anymore, coupled with the sympathy for Young Master Dio in his heart, he wanted to pull out the long sword at his waist, kill the hateful guy in front of him, and then take Young Master Dio away and fly away. But it is always difficult for wishes to change reality, thinking about the outside world, and then thinking about the wife and children in the manor, the boiling blood in Roy's heart gradually cooled, his throat throbbed with great difficulty, and then fell silent again.
What's more important is that although Tombur is only one of the most extensive and lowest-level awakened people in the continent, and he is a first-order three-star talent warrior, his rank is completely assessed according to his ability to control the source force, and when it comes to life and death fighting, he may not be Tomble's opponent.
Tang Bu is infinitely powerful, he can tear the tiger and leopard alive, his actual combat power is close to that of a second-order talent warrior, and he will definitely not be worse than him, even if he can kill Tang Buur, he will inevitably suffer heavy damage, in this cold and bone-chilling wilderness, injury is equal to death, he doesn't want to give away his surname.
The conversation between the two men had come to an end, one continued to dig a hole, the other was silent, and beyond the woods, the young man named Dio had stepped out of the carriage and looked silently at the woods ahead.
Now, you can clearly see Dio's appearance, perhaps because he has not seen the sun for a long time, his skin is a strange pale, a pair of thick and heroic sword eyebrows, flying obliquely into the sideburns, the pupils are black, bottomless black, his lips are slightly thin, tightly pursed together, there is a somewhat stubborn, stubborn taste.
In terms of facial features, Dio's appearance is impeccable, but I don't know why, it just makes people feel uncomfortable, for no other reason, Dio's eyes and expression are dull and stiff, and he looks like an idiot.
After standing for a long time in the cold wind, Dio suddenly raised his foot, one foot deeper, one foot shallow, and walked into the dense forest, his eyes not looking at the road at all, always staring straight ahead.
Tombur had already dug a pit more than one meter deep, he estimated it in his heart, and it felt that it should be about the same, he threw the shovel aside, jumped out of the pit, and saw a pair of straight eyes, Dio appeared too suddenly, Tombur didn't notice it at all, he was startled at first, and then laughed strangely: "Oh, our young master Theo is here." ”
Dio's gaze stiffened little by little away from Tomble and landed on the pit.
"How is it, Master Theo, are you still satisfied?" Tomble's strange laughter grew louder and louder: "This is your new home, forever, hahaha......"
Roy closed his eyes and turned his head sideways, he couldn't bear to look at it anymore, Dio was born an idiot, this is true, but because of idiocy, Dio will not affect the interests of others in any way, he really can't understand, why? Why do you have to kill this idiot boy who hides in the room all day long, harmless to people and animals, and can't bear those few pieces of bread?!
"It's too small. Dio's mouth came with a muffled voice.
"Little?" said Tomble, grinning as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, and he couldn't even breathe, and in the ubiquitous cold, he could clearly see a line of saliva splashing from the violent tremor of his throat.
Dio still stared blankly at the pit beneath his feet, unaware that his death was near.
"My young master, don't be picky. Tombe, who had laughed enough, squatted down and grabbed Dio's collar: "Satisfied, do you still want Lao Tzu to build you a manor here?!"
The collar was tightened, Dio could no longer breathe normally, and his stiff expression finally changed somewhat, and he grabbed Tomble's wrist with one hand, and danced forward with the other.
The more Dio struggled, the happier Tomble became, and it had nothing to do with whether he had hatred with Dio, it was purely because of his natural surname, and every time he felt life withering in his hands, his blood would boil and he would be excited.
Dio's fingertips danced in vain in front of the tip of Tomble's nose, and as an awakened one, Tomble could easily control the distance between the two sides.
Most beasts hunt their prey just to survive, but Tomble is playing cat and mouse at the moment, he is to satisfy the pleasure of his heart.
When Dio's fingertips swept past the tip of Tombur's nose again, he suddenly clenched into a fist, and his stiff body also tilted at the same time, and the fist struck Tomble's nose with lightning speed.
Bang......
The fingertips were only a few centimeters from the tip of his nose, and the distance was too close for Tomble to react, and he suddenly felt a blackness in front of his eyes, a tingling pain came from his forehead, and his thick and powerful body turned into a statue and slowly fell backwards.
The next moment, Tombur had already collapsed on the edge of the pit, he still maintained a squatting position, his eyes widened, staring blankly at the dim sky, the brilliance of life slowly passed in his eyes, and finally, his eyes became more stiff than Dio just now.
A cold wind blew through the forest, Roy couldn't help but shudder, he couldn't believe his eyes, what the hell was going on?!
Roy saw Dio's movements, but that punch had no power at all, only a few centimeters away, and it couldn't release the power, and the mighty Tomble was knocked down with a light punch?
Dio's body slowly turned, and his straight gaze fell on Roy, who couldn't help but take a step back, grabbing the hilt of the sword with his right hand.
Dio closed his eyes, and after a moment, his eyes slowly opened again.
At this moment, Dio is like the dragon with life in the finishing touch of the story, his eyes full of fierce aura make his whole person suddenly become vivid, a pair of heroic sword eyebrows, also have their own vitality, the corners of the mouth are slightly upturned, and they seem to be smiling.
Roy looked at Dio dumbfounded, although Dio's appearance has not changed, but the former latter gives people the feeling of a world of difference, the idiot Dio is just an inconspicuous small stone on the side of the road, and now Dio has become a huge reef that stands tall in the monstrous tsunami.
"Isn't that strange?" said Dio slowly, and the upturned curvature of his mouth increased.
"Xiao ...... Young Master Theo...... Roy's voice trembled slightly: "Are you talking to me?"
"Actually, it's just a trick. Dio lifted his foot and lightly stepped on Tomble's nose: "The bone on the bridge of the nose is the easiest to break, with a good angle and strength, you can easily punch the broken bone into his head." ”
"Hit in the head?" Roy felt a chill rise from the back of his spine to the top of his head, making his hairs stand on end.
"Yes, of course, you need to practice a thousand times before you can really master this technique. As he spoke, Dio's feet spun in half a circle, and streams of blood flowed from Dio's feet, as well as some transparent and shiny liquid, mixed with the blood.
"See? This is cerebrospinal fluid, huh...... By the way, do you know what cerebrospinal fluid is?" asked Dio, smiling.
Roy shook his head wildly, he really didn't understand, the tremor of his body had spread to his whole body, if he could, he really wanted to turn around and run away, but his wife and children were in the manor, he could grit his teeth and refuse to be a samurai who served justice, although this was once his ideal, he could not escape the responsibility of a husband and a father.
"Forget it, answer you a question......" Dio looked a little interested: "There will definitely be ten, or even hundreds of questions, I'm very lazy." ”
"Huh...... Hehe......" Roy tried his best to smile like a sycophant, but his laughter was more ugly than crying.
"I told you, the pit you dug is too small, but you just don't believe it, unlucky boy...... If you die, you have to be in the wilderness. Dio lifted his feet and said earnestly to the unrecognizable Tomble.
Roy's heart became more and more hairy, and he even had a feeling of urgency to urinate, killing is nothing, he has also seen killing, the key is Dio's performance.
"Roy, do you know how to drive?" asked Dio.
"I'm driving?" Roy, who was in fear, his reaction speed degraded significantly.
"yes, I want to go back. ”
"Ah, I will, I will, definitely!" Roy exclaimed incoherently, and when he had said that, he turned and ran out of the woods, and ran seven or eight paces before he realized that there was something wrong with his manners, and hurriedly stood there, nodding and waiting for Theo.
A few minutes later, the lone carriage turned around and sped off on its own path.
Another cold wind swept through the forest, but it was a strange gust of wind, and as it blew through Tomble's body, it suddenly turned into a whirlwind, and then a figure stepped out of the whirlwind, looking down at Tomble's face.
It was an old man with gray hair, and he seemed to be thinking about something, and for a moment, he waved his wrist, and a white blade flew down, gently cutting into the center of Tomble's nose.
Then the old man leaned down, carefully picking open the broken flesh, and saw a piece of blue-white bone stuck deep in the hole of his nose.
The old man looked surprised and muttered, "That's really the case...... That kid's mastery of ** power is so exquisite...... Hey...... Thousands of exercises? Who does he use to practice? Interesting......