Chapter 20: Youth
In the carriage, everyone was depressed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The danger of death had just dissipated, and Cathy closed her eyes tremblingly, but the girl Sanny couldn't control it, and began to cry after a whimper!
She had never encountered such a horrible thing in her life!
The strange legends she had hoped for in the past collapsed in an instant, and when the danger came, she realized how ridiculous it was to expect those legends!
She'd rather never see those monsters for the rest of her life!
But everyone knows very well that the gloomy swamp is so big, I am afraid that there will never be fewer skeletons like that, and they are already more than lucky.
Some mercenaries scolded and shouted to go back, but Cathy ignored them all, everyone knew that although the road ahead was dangerous, no one dared to go back.
They had avoided the skeletons for the time being, but no one dared to imagine it again.
In the carriage, everyone did not speak.
Cathy calmed down, and after a long time, she said in a trembling voice: "Fix the carriage first, no matter what happens next, we can't freeze to death in the carriage." ”
But as soon as the words fell, no one paid attention to her.
Before, they only thought that they could at least get enough gold and food for following this troupe, but they brought them to such a ghost place, and the mercenaries are now even starting to hate Cathy.
The selfishness of human nature is so exposed, even if it is clear, Cathy is helpless. All she can do is endure it, and if she leaves these people, then she will really be finished, and her family will no longer have hope.
"Then let's get started," a voice said suddenly in a moment's silence, "I'll take care of the rear compartment door panels." With that, Louis half-crouched out.
For a while, everyone looked at each other, Kate silently went to accompany Louis, Gale and Bart were also responsible for dealing with the front door of the car, and the mercenaries had no choice but to seal the "trauma" in the car with cloth and leather.
Cathy glanced at Louis behind her gratefully, but for a moment, it seemed to drain all her strength, she closed her eyes and prayed deeply, hoping that God's mercy would allow them to get through this pass.
However, the strange thing is that except for the first day, the number of skeletons after that has really decreased significantly, I don't know if it's because of the geography of the gloomy swamp itself, or because of some other reason?
But even so, no one can sleep well, except for the time to eat, everyone is tense.
But when it came to eating, they found that the meat was gone!
The mercenaries were furious at first, but Louis insisted that all the meat jelly had been overturned by the skeletons, and that there was nothing left except for some bone jelly.
But looking at this young man at this moment, he didn't know when an uncompelling momentum grew between his eyebrows, and what he said made people inexplicably dare not refute.
If it weren't for this tense atmosphere, people might still be paying attention to this change, but now everyone is only thinking about leaving, and there is no time for anything else.
Long distances, day after day, what remains unchanged is people's urgent mood, but what changes is Louis's heart.
The reason why he chose to be in charge of the repair of the door panel of the rear compartment was to hide the leftover jelly, which only Black Pudding and Kate kate knew.
Black Pudding has always said and done anything, and Kate, at first, was because of a weak heart.
In the face of danger, even a young man like Louis dared to raise a sword to fight with the skeleton, but he only dared to stay in the carriage, cowering with the old and weak women and children, and finally finally went out, facing the skeleton, but he couldn't even hold the sword.
Although Cathy didn't say anything, he was ashamed of himself, he didn't dare to look at the haggard and disappointed face, so he had to accompany Louie, and the other party told him to do whatever he wanted.
But he didn't think that the boy would secretly hide all the meat jelly!
Why?
He secretly thought about it, but he didn't think that the boy looked like such a selfish person, although many times it was like this, human nature would become outrageous in the face of danger, such as him, who usually giggles and laughs, but is as timid as a mouse.
But he still doesn't want to speculate on others so much, it's just that he is bad, if he even thinks others are so bad, then he is really useless.
He was confused, distressed, blamed himself, and didn't know whether to tell anyone else, until, with his own eyes, he saw this scene with his own eyes.
When night falls and people are sleepy and half-asleep, pale figures reappear on both sides of the road, among the grass and gravel.
He almost screamed, but a small palm covered his mouth, and the black pudding looked at him silently, and then, again, gave all his trust to him—the mysterious boy.
He saw with his own eyes that the boy threw the jelly one by one on both sides of the road. The tender meat jelly was light and rolled down almost silently, without alarming anyone.
Then, a startling scene emerged.
Led by a sturdy skeleton suddenly sprang out like a cheetah, and pounced on the jelly at once, stuffing the jelly into its mouth, in addition to the suspicious intoxicated expression on the stiff face, Kate also heard a weak "grunt".
He was stunned.
One and two, he saw that the young man beside him was calm, and his reaction seemed to be more agile than that of skeletons, manipulating the crystal objects in his hands almost casually, leading the skeletons to be overwhelmed and beating each other.
It doesn't get much more shocking or weird than that!
In the carriage, someone always pushed the window in surprise, but Kate could always see the white ones hooked into the reeds by the jelly, and then, faintly hearing the endless scramble "chirping", "cooing", "quacking", making him wonder if his ears were deaf.
The originally terrifying skeleton has become no longer so terrifying?
Even Cathy failed to notice the change in Kate.
It was a state of fading away from fear, nervousness, and self-blame, and becoming more and more relaxed, and Kate looked forward to it the most at night.
Sitting next to the boy and watching him tease the skeleton with ease, while he sometimes had itchy hands and couldn't help but want to try it, he found that he couldn't keep up with the speed of the skeleton at all.
When a skeleton lunged forward viciously, nearly biting off his fingers, he realized that these creatures were not as docile as he thought.
Louis kicked it down with one last kick!
In the face of Louie, these skeletons were helpless, but also faintly fearful, and Kate gradually regained a trace of reason.
You can't be overly afraid, but you can't be fearless beyond your ability.
This is what he learned from teenagers.
Time flies, humans tend to be stable creatures, and when the threat gradually wanes, no amount of tension can support it.
In the next few days, everyone seemed to have unloaded all their burdens, and after resting hesitantly, they were about to leave the gloomy swamp, and people felt that there was no threat.
Even Cathy fell asleep for more than two days.
Death, however, awaits at this comfortable fork in the road, unexpectedly ready to meet the head-on blow.